What Is Self-Actualization & How You Can Achieve It!

— "The self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a human being with dampened and inhibited powers."

Valeria interviews Roman Gelperin — He is the author of "THE MASTER MIND OF THE SELF-ACTUALIZING PERSON: The Life and Legacy of Abraham Maslow, and My Sudden Awakening into Self-Actualization and five other titles.

Roman Gelperin injured his back lifting weights when he was twenty. He spent the next year nearly unable to walk, and in searing nerve pain all of his waking hours. And it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Having lost his physical health, he achieved perfect psychological health—what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called self-actualization.

Through deep introspection, he resolved all of his psychological problems. And since then, he has been writing books on the different insights this has provided him into human psychology.

Roman is the author of six self-published nonfiction books addressing different facets of psychological health. They are: Addiction, Procrastination, and Laziness: A Proactive Guide to the Psychology of Motivation, And It Was All Your Fault: Unraveling the Inner Psychology of Depression, How it Begins, and What Cures It, Self-Actualized by Poker: The Path from Categorical Learning to Free-Thinking, The Master Mind of the Self-Actualizing Person: The Life and Legacy of Abraham Maslow, and My Sudden Awakening into Self-Actualization, On Rotting Prison Straw: The Self-Actualization of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and To Set a Soul of Fire: The Life and Psychology of Ayn Rand.

Roman Gelperin works as a full-time Montessori Teacher for preschool children aged three to six. Roman has a BA in psychology from Stony Brook University. He was a Research Assistant at Dr. Ellen Langer's Harvard Mindfulness Lab. He is a member of MENSA, with a top 99th percentile IQ. He is a Zendo-trained Psychedelic Peer Support specialist, and has trice worked as a Zendo volunteer providing peer support at Burning Man and similar festivals. Roman is thirty-three and lives in the Boston area.

To learn more about Roman Gelperin and his work, please visit: https://www.romangelperin.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/romangelperin/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.