Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs
According to Abraham H. Maslow in his descriptio of the hierarchy of needs of humans:
- The lowest, most immediate of human needs in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, are the air, water, and food requirements for human survival. In subdividing this group, we find that our breath is our most immediate need (without air, we’ll die in minutes). Then water comes next (we can survive without water a few days tops), then food (we can survive without nourishment a few weeks to months at most),
- Next come the safety and security needs (we might survive without this if we’re lucky and agile, but we’d spend much of our time looking over our shoulders for enemies as opposed to getting real work done).
- Then in the Maslow hierarchy of needs, come the love needs (we can survive without the affections of another but not well as we could with them, and probably not as long either).
- Next come the esteem needs in the Maslow hierarchy of needs (we can indeed survive without others liking us, but life is not fun like that).
- Finally, perhaps the least immediately required but the potentially most fulfilling of all the levels in the Maslow hierarchy of needs, are the self actualization needs (we can survive without realizing our dearest dreams, but we wouldn’t be as happy as we could possibly be without fulfillment at this highest needs level of human existence).
Abraham H. Maslow is a personal hero of mine, as I think that he hit it spot on with this hierarchy of needs proposal, that he describes at length in his book: Motivation and Personality.
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