"It's probably the only chance I'll have to spend that much time in the same room with such a brilliant man, " said James Albert, another Tippie MBA student.

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Maslow helped a bit by giving a list of people he felt had reached self-actualisation: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, William James, Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Spinoza and Aldous Huxley, as well as 12 unnamed people alive at the time Maslow did his research.

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Unlike other sports, where game-changing talents such as LeBron James and Albert Pujols find their way into the open market, NFL teams typically keep their stars under contract.

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