Journey of personal development (Part 3):Transcend yourself
© Paul T.P. Wong, PhD, CPsych
The fifth cycle of Meaningful Living Group, March, 2015
Overview
Moving from survival, healing to thriving
Constructing a better future
Personal growth is a process
Stages of personal development
Self-reflection
Self-determination
Choose your worldviews carefully
Self-transcendence
Self-transcendence makes us �fully human
Ancient Greeks
Aristotle’s Four Cardinal Virtues
Confucius Five Cardinal Virtues
Carl Roger’s view of personal growth
Self-actualization
Seligman’s Well-being Theory
Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy
Basic tenets of logotherapy�
What is self-transcendence?
The meaning mindset vs. the success mindset
Success
Failure
Meaning Fulfillment
Emptiness
Ideal Life
Wasted Life
Shallow Life
Sacrificial Life
Transcends opposites
Virtue matters more than success
What is the meaning of life?
Meanings are based on three values
Sources of Meaning
According to Wong (1998), there are 8 sources of meaning and the good life.
Self-transcendence in PURE
The Meaning Mindset
Meaning Intervention
Benefits of Meaning in Life
Power of self-transcendence
A good life based on �self-transcendence