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		<title>Common characteristics of the most successful people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who studied a selection of the finest and most successful people who had ever lived to find out what they had in common.  Read on to find out the common factors of people such as Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln and Albert Schweitzer and how they apply to your life. Maslow identified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving a Recession</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/surviving-a-recession-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent economic events and increasing unemployment indicates that a recession is looming. A recession can potentially impact your economic freedom, which affects many other parts of your life. I know this from my own experience when I was made redundant from my job after 16 years back in 2003. Since that time, I have learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regaining the lost treasure</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/regaining-the-lost-treasure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 13:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This posting is about our lifelong struggle to regain lost treasure. This is based on a dream I had where I saw a large shimmering pearl that I somehow knew that I must have. I believe that this represents a treasure that was ours, that we no longer possess but must regain. When we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four stages of freedom</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/stages-of-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 06:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This posting is about the evolution of someone&#8217;s thought patterns as they transition from unfree to free person. I propose that the person goes through four cycles based on what they are focusing on at each stage: acquisition, inquiry, practice and meditation. I&#8217;ve loosely based this on the Futures100 study into the luxury market which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renouncing mediocrity</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/renouncing-mediocrity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>freedom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hardly need to define mediocrity &#8211; it surrounds us on all sides &#8211; but I think that a description of it being the quality of ordinariness, of being only average or being second rate sums it up well. Whilst it is nothing new, our society increasingly celebrates the banal, promoting false celebrity in place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming an authentic person</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/becoming-an-authentic-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>freedom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rediscovering freedom involves regaining a feeling of comfort in your own skin. The awkward layers that have been assumed to please others are shed, and the real person is revealed &#8211; an authentic person. What does this mean, and how do we regain our authenticity? Firstly, what does authentic mean? The dictionary definition is: Conforming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Direct action for freedom</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/direct-action-for-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>freedom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the system]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This posting is based on information in the book &#8220;How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World&#8221; by Harry Browne (which I highly recommend). Browne&#8217;s book is about what we can do to immediately gain freedom and overcome obstacles to our own growth. The major obstacles are not political, but cultural &#8211; we are conditioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoners in Plato&#8217;s cave &#8211; understanding reality</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/prisoners-in-a-cave-understanding-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/prisoners-in-a-cave-understanding-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>freedom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This posting is about how what we perceive as real is often a distorted of the underlying truth. This means that in order to find truth, we must search beyond what is immediately obvious to us and challenge our preconceptions of the world. Plato in Book Seven of the Republic used the allegory of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to become more intolerant &#8211; the virtue of intolerance</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/become-more-intolerant/</link>
		<comments>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/become-more-intolerant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>freedom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We read a lot about how we should be more tolerant. Tolerance is commonly considered to be essential for living harmoniously together. This posting is about why intolerance is a virtue and how we should all aim to be more intolerant. If that&#8217;s not bad enough, we should also try to be more impatient. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving self actualization</title>
		<link>http://regainingfreedom.com/self-actualization/achieving-self-actualization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>freedom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self-actualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abraham Maslow proposed that self actualization is the highest state that a person can achieve in a hierarchy of needs. I believe that to achieve our highest potential as humans, we need to understand self actualization, and how we can practically achieve it. Maslow&#8217;s study focussed on past and present people who he believed showed [...]]]></description>
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