Motivation And Personality
By Abraham Maslow

SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE: A STUDY 0F PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH (Their traits) 

MORE EFFICIENT PERCEPTION OF REALITY AND MORE COMFORTABLE RELATIONS WITH IT 

The first form in which this capacity was noticed was as an unusual ability to detect the spurious, the fake, and the dishonest in personality, and in general to judge people correctly and efficiently.
As the study progressed, it slowly became apparent that this efficiency extended to many other areas of life-indeed all areas that were observed. In art and music, in things of the intellect, in scientific matters, in politics and public affairs, they seemed as a group to be able to see ...