"Data" here consist not so much of the usual gathering of specific and discrete facts as in the slow development of a global or holistic impression of the sort that we form of our friends and acquaintances. It was rarely possible to "set up" a situation, to ask pointed questions, or to do any testing with my older subjects (although this was possible and was done with younger subjects). Contacts were fortuitous and of the ordinary social sort. Friends and relations were questioned where this was possible.

Because of this and also because of the small number of subjects, as well as the incompleteness of the data for many subjects, any quantitative presentation is impossible; only composite "impressions" can be offered for whatever they may be worth (and of course they are worth much less than controlled objective observation, since the investigator is never quite certain about what is description and what is projection).

The holistic analysis of these total impressions yields, as the most important and useful whole-characteristics of self-actualizing people, further clinical and experimental study, the following: