One of the most mythical ideas in the history of psychology lies in a modest triangle divided into five sections universally referred to simply as Maslow's hierarchy of needs This deeply influential pyramid was first seen in an academic journal in the United States in 1943, where it was sketched crudely in black and white and surrounded Text dense and rich in terms. It has since become a mainstay for psychoanalysis, business presentations, and TED talks — and has become more colorful and emphasizing in the process. The pyramid was the work of a thirty-five-year-old Jewish psychologist of Russian descent named Abraham Maslow, who had been searching since the beginning of his professional career for anything less than a revolutionary. No longer part of a tight-knit orthodox family in his youth, Maslow wanted to know what would make life meaningful for people (including himself) in contemporary America, a country where the pursuit of money and fame seemed to overshadow more inner aspirations.
Or real and saw that psychology is the discipline that will enable him to answer the aspirations and questions that people once took towards religion. He suddenly saw that human beings could be said to have five different basic types of needs: on the one hand psychological or what one might say, without any mysticism meant the word, spiritual and on the other hand, matter.
For Maslow, we all begin with a set of basic, absolutely non-negotiable physiological needs for food, water, warmth, and comfort. Additionally, we have immediate safety needs for physical security and protection from attack. But then we begin to enter the spiritual realm. We need belonging and love. We need friends and loved ones, we need appreciation and respect. Finally, and most importantly, we are driven by what Maslow called the now mythical term – the desire for self-actualization: a broad, vague and hugely influential concept that includes what Maslow described as "living to one's full potential" and "being who we truly are" as one reason Beyond the description of these needs, enunciated in the form of a pyramid, she convincingly demonstrates her ability to capture the deep structure truth about the simplicity of human existence.
Maslow was putting his finger, with extraordinary ingenuity and precision, on a range of answers to questions so big that they tend to confuse us so frighteningly, especially when we were young: What are we really after? And what are we longing for? How do we prioritize and give due consideration to the different and competing claims to our attention? Maslow was reminding us with artistic succinctness of what an ideal life would be like, and at once suggesting that we cannot live by our spiritual vocations alone, but also cannot be right to focus only on the material life also we need to be perfect, both worlds Physical and Spiritual Should Be Concerned.
Basic Lending Support While Summit Provides an upward trend and definition Maslow was refuting two kinds of calls from fanatics: first, the zealous spiritual kinds urge us to forget about money, housing, and an insurance policy good enough to pay for lunch. But he was also fighting against those for whom the success of work is the only criterion of truth from extremists who would suggest that life was simply a brutal process of putting food on the table and going to the office. Both camps, in Maslow's view, misunderstood the complexity of the human animal unlike other creatures, we really Multi-faceted, we are called at once to release our souls according to their inner destiny—and to make sure we can pay the bills at the end of the month Maslow was working at the height of American capitalism, and was intriguingly ambivalent about business.
He resented the material resources of the large corporations around him, but in At the same time he lamented that almost all of their economic activities – unfairly and very strangely – are focused on meeting the needs of customers at the bottom of his pyramid. Big American companies were helping people have a roof over their heads, feed them, transport them, and make sure they could talk to each other at a long distance. But they seemed utterly uninterested in trying to fulfill the basic spiritual appetite set on the higher slopes of his pyramid late in his long life, Maslow hoped that in time companies would learn to make more of their profits by satisfying not only our basic needs but also and most importantly – our own. Spiritual and psychological high as well. That would be truly enlightened capitalism. In the personal realm, Maslow's hierarchy remains a very useful framework to turn to whenever we try to assess the direction of our lives. When we think about it, we begin to notice that we have not arranged our needs as coordinately and balanced as wisely and exquisitely as we can.
Some people have had a broad rule of thumb: All energy seems to be directed towards the accumulation of material life. At the same time there is life that suffers from the opposite problem, where we have not paid the necessary capital for our need to take care of our fragile and weak bodies. Maslow was guiding us to the need for a greater balance between the many priorities that we must reconcile. His simple, beautiful visual initiation is, above all else, a picture of a life living in harmony with the complexities of our nature which we, in our least excited moments, must use to think with a new focus on what we might do next.
Translated by: Shawan Hamid.