Buy the products that not only meet your current needs, but that help you enter into your own unique potential in life. Y know, I can t remember seeing too many ads that say things like that. Sure it can. But so can anything. The question is whether we re going to let that possibility keep us from trying to find better lives for ourselves.
Humanistic psychologists don t just exclude the possibility of stasis either.
One thing that makes humanistic psychologists different is that they don t see fixing people s problems as psychology s only purpose. The bumper sticker says, Life s a bitch, and then you die. Humanistic psychologists admit that a lot of people s lives are more or less like that, but that no one s life has to be that. In other words, the world always has a demand-quality that is not just the product of our own choices. Our freedom is never just the freedom to do whatever we want whenever we want, because being a free human being is not the same as being God.