An overview of Super3io Self-Development Theory Beyond the Black Box Era OUR INNERMOST MOTIVATIONS are typically difficult to access—even amongst psychologists who study motivations. As is well known, over two thousand years of inquiries on the psyche took a turn—away from the mind—when American psychologist John B. Watson introduces Behaviorism to the world. Since the dawn of the last century, the mind and its contents have been deemed ‘inaccessible to scientific methods’ (

Maslow’s “self-actualization” has often been seen as some lofty and sophisticated aspiration reserved for those who have had their...