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Writing Is The Fastest Path To Self-Actualization

How to ‘win’ in the game of life

Nchewi Edu
3 min readJul 20, 2020
Photo by Sammie Vasquez on Unsplash

The easiest way to leapfrog to the top of Maslow’s pyramid is through writing.

Rather than wait until we’ve arrived at some glorious point in the near or distant future, through writing we can enjoy the journey for its sake. What everyone should remember is that we do not have to be or do anything to be worthy as individuals, we are worthy on the mere basis that we are human. There isn’t a better way to live, and experience living, than writing about it. Writing about how we are experiencing life gives us power over the narrative of our lives.

Every human is different. We all have different stories, histories, circumstances of birth, and even different preferences. But there is one thing we all have in common, we all want to matter.

Every one of us has a strong innate desire to find our place, or a place for ourselves in the universe. Every one of us also believes there is a reason for our existence. We all feel like the protagonist in this enormous show called Life. This thing called Life is happening to and around us, and we are the ones telling the story in our heads.

Sadly, a lot of us do not consider our ‘story’ worthy enough. Yet, we glorify other people and even label some of the ‘celebrities’. We…

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