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In my 20s I gave over importance to self actualization part which I sometimes regret now. At present working on building base (materialistic) part at 34 years of age!
Luxury lifestyle brands and social media companies hit esteem and self-actualization needs pretty well, however, they give only but shadows of those needs - a false sense of self-esteem and self-actualization.
Exactly my thoughts! Also, the brands back in Maslow's time only covered a very superficial layer of self actualization or simply used it as a trick to lure people into buying their products. In school, we have a subject called "Macht der Medien" (= the power of media), where we actually used Maslow's pyramid in order to create advertisements for chewing gum or blue jeans. The teachers didn't mention it, but after watching this video it became very clear what I had suspected before: Brands try to fool us into believing that they will have all of their higher needs fulfilled, when in reality, this is not at all the case. The chewing gum brand and advertisement I created focused on people who want to feel special and to be seen as someone independent (which in itself doesn't make a lot of sense, to want to be SEEN as someone INDEPENDENT). Hence, the poster I made featured a guy wearing wierd, colourful clothes and my slogan went: "Do the f*ck you want". If you bought this chewing gum, you'd maybe feel cool for a bit. But obviously, chewing a special gum isn't going to make you feel accomplished or authentic on the long run. After a month or two, no one will react to your special chewing gum anymore and you too will forget its inital meaning and just continue buying it because you've had them for a while now.
You're right. And influencer culture takes advantage of our need for relationships and belonging, again promising self-actualization when really they're just trying to sell us crap we barely have any need for.
Yes, because people living under capitalism have been, since childhood, taught to rely on commodities to create an identity for themselves. In our current times, identity is eliminated and replace with a new one just to keep buying more stuff. Basically, people are forced to buy and sense of belonging and fulfillment. This is what neoliberalism is, where there is a market for everything; marketing and advertisements are the tools, to create a need (really a problem) and sell you the solution, but only temporarily, because you have to keep buying what they produce. A rise in autism, adhd, depression, suicide, drug abuse is no coincidence. It is a symptom of the current system
@@vidividivicious mostly correct, though I don't think autism and adhd are caused by the environment. As far as I know you are born like that, not made.
archmad they are the exception. And the very rare also a minute part of the population. But I know where your coming from and I agree. Desperation can produce wonderful art and pieces. Thank you
I first learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when I went to grad school to study business and finance. It changed my life because it changed the way I SAW my life. My parents are survivors. They felt as long as I had the basics (food, clothing, shelter, health insurance) everything is fine. When it was time for me to go out into the "real world" they said, find a job that provides a retirement plan, health insurance and enough money to buy a house and a car. I wanted to be a filmmaker. Nope - they said filmmaking is for rich, white men - not for a poor, black woman. I asked, once you have the basics covered, what is the point? What is the reason to keep living, using up the Earth's natural resources (like water), and not committing suicide? Seriously. There is a difference between surviving and living a fulfilling life. Before grad school, I knew I wanted to live, not just survive. I was once angry with my parents, but I forgave them because I realized only a self-actualized person can raise and support a self-actualized child. That's why it took me until my late 20s going to grad school to learn about this pyramid. Money makes the world go around so you need it to cover the basics (rent, food, etc). I always understood that. But everyone's ultimate goal should be financial freedom and self-actualization - no matter how long it takes to get there.
when I was an exchange student back in my childhood I went to an American school and lived in a host family (white Irish+Jewish origins). I always wondered why so many blacks were discriminated in the US in the 21 century the time when we have already landed on the Moon and trying to go further... They (my host family) told me that the blacks had themselves to blame for the ongoing injustice and humiliation and this was LONG before the Black Lives Matter! I said to them NO this is wrong! It is the sole responsibility of the currant Government to distribute the resources and the state budget evenly! It's not right to see the poor getting poorer, while the rich getting fatter...They said it's life it's CAPITALISM.....
Dear MJ Burgess: It is rare to see such an intelligent comment on RUclips and I agree with all you say. However, you must understand that there exist actual social forces bent on ensuring that average Americans NEVER reach a level of true self actualization. In fact, under the Patriot Act, a citizen who achieves true self actualization in their life might be considered a "national security threat". After a 30 year award winning career as a teacher in NYC schools, John Taylor Gatto spent the rest of his life crucifying in print the American Public School System. His bottom line conclusion was that the explicit purpose of public education is actually not to educate the student at all but to "dumb him down" instead. Gatto saw the purpose of public education being the production of "automatons", or robots for the corporate business world, willing to do their assigned tasks devoid of any real thought about them. Gatto himself asserts that including any consideration of "critical thinking" into public school curricula would be a threat to the Capitalist status quo. And that's just the beginning. In 30 years as a consumer debt collector, I had ample opportunity to see how manipulative and often untrue advertising unfairly persuades millions of people to sink into the pit of "debt slavery" where their paychecks are spent on bills even before they even receive them. In her recent book "Divining Desire", Liza Featherstone reveals how Big Business advertising employs social psychologists whose job it is to produce ads and commercials that are psychologically irresistible to the consumer. Our Capitalist society doesn't want self actualized human beings. They want cogs that fit into the Capitalist machine. On the consumer side that means keeping people engrossed with their lower level needs. That also makes people politically malleable because their thought processes never become developed enough to question the status quo. Yes, indeed it is possible to reach true self actualization in this life, but you must recognize the forces that are working against you before you just waste your time. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@ernestoglez6725 logical(for most)....but those who are on the higher platforms of knowledge care or think about these things very less. It has to happen organically, there is a process and experiential journey towards that stage of life.A few fortunate ones enjoy that. This is my opinion which is formed by contemplation ,reading and other means of learning.I hope you understand what I mean.
During Maslow's time, his country was still a developing one and the people could not afford to move up their needs. " To be able to worry about meaning of life, is truly a luxury"
Nonsense. America and western Europe in Maslow's time were mature industrial societies where basic needs were met and all young people got married. People doubtless had an easier time moving up their needs heirarchy in the 1950's than today.
@@parthnagda3775 lol. You're probably some young dude cut off from the past, and by the looks of it not even European. So what do you know about the fifties, Parth?
Sad thing is: Most people try to educate children by denying them the fulfillment of their needs. This results in humans who are very uncertain about the love they deserve and the amount of love they really own. I really hope we somehow learn to bypass this strategy of conditioning and enable our children to live to their full potential.
Its more than a little distressing when adults in a child's life withhold love, affection, and approval as a sort of carrot to encourage acomplishment. Poeple do this and then wonder why there are so many adults who are so deeply damaged and psychospiritually unwell. Only in a culture as obsessed with wealth, power, and prestige as the modern West is would this be seen as healthy or in any way a "good" idea.
@robert martin part of growing up is learning you don't always get what you want or need in life, just because you have "needs" doesn't mean you deserve or are entitled to their fulfilment, or would be provided with it. I'm asian, you guys in the west dwell too much, you don't have nearly as much social problems as you think
Pei Qiaoqiao pain can be big or small. Someone in the west has a dying friend and you wouldn’t know. But perhaps in the east a large earthquake killed hundreds. Would the person in the west care? Perhaps. Because in the end both sides of the spectrum experienced loss. No matter how big nor how small. Because even a speck of sympathy can open a pathway for empathy and vulnerability.
@@noice2606 that's the problem, fishing and relying on other people's sympathy don't make people happy, it makes people entitled and needy, and resentful when they don't have their emotional needs met. At the end of the day, the only person that's responsible for your emotions is you.
One problem with the hierarchy, researchers found, is that people often seek these needs in a different order that Maslow proposes (Maslow would say higher needs do not appear until lower needs are met). Maslow also wrote a book called,"Towards a Psychology of Being," which serves as a sequel to the hierarchy of needs: It defines what self-actualization actually is. One thing Maslow says in the book, is that many psychological disorders appear when the hierarchy isn't met, and that the disorder disappears once certain needs are met (He says a large body of research shows this). One more interesting thing Maslow says, which was probably inspired by Taoism. He says seeing people as need-fulfillers can make us hostile to others when we see they are not fulfilling our needs. Behavior people have unrelated to our needs might anger or annoy us. We also only focus-like tunnel vision-on what people do to satisfy our needs, and not see the other person holistically. In contrast, Self-Actualized people see other people as they are, holistically, and do not feel they "need" the other person, yet can still love/admire/respect them for their whole person. Maslow adds more to the difference between need-deficient love and Self-Actualized love. Edit: Self-Actualized people tend to feel both need-deficient love and Self-Actualized love, (Maslow says both kinds of love are needed for a good social relationship).
Makes sense. If someone sells fruits, and they usually sell me strawberries as I only like strawberries as a fruit, but today they ran out and can no longer sell strawberries for today. I would naturally take a hostile action and not buy fruit from there, and no one would blame me, the need is unable to be fulfilled there, so I will refrain from trying to fulfill it there, which would benefit him if I did try to buy his fruit. People would say that makes sense, even the store owner though he'd dislike not having a customer would understand. Now if I go there to buy fruit but I also know the store owner is a hard working individual, and always gives me some extra strawberries because they appreciate me as a consistent character, even if they don't have strawberries I'll still buy something because whether I buy or not is no longer about the fruit, but the fact I wish to support the store owner who I believe has a good character
Its hard to change ignorant people but when you want hem to do something tell them to do that thing in such a way that they get something for doing it. Suppose the person likes basket ball and you want then to chsnge their attitude causr they are rude. You can say "If you dont change your attitude then you may not be in a team." or you can talk about that one player who got fired because their attitude sucked
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Nothing wrong with eating, makes you no less worthy, we are biologically made, hence food, no different then most animals, birds etc. I love the comment's on here. Eating is also a social thing increasing our happy meter.
FULL TRANSCRIPT: One of the most legendary ideas in the history of psychology Is located in an unassuming triangle Divided into 5 sections referred to universally simply as ‘Maslow's pyramid of needs’. This profoundly influential pyramid first saw the world in an academic Journal in the United States in 1943 where it was crudely drawn in black and white and surrounded by dense and jargon-rich text. It has since become a mainstay of psychological analyses, business presentations and TED talks - and grown ever more colourful and emphatic in the process. The pyramid was the work of 35-year-old Jewish psychologist Of Russian origins called Abraham Maslow, who had been looking, since the start of his professional career for nothing less than the meaning of life. No longer part of the Close-knit orthodox family of his youth, Maslow wanted to find out what could make life purposeful for people (himself included) in modern-day America a country where the pursuit of money And fame seemed to have eclipsed anymore interior or authentic aspirations. He saw Psychology as the discipline that would enable him to answer the yearnings and questions that people had once taken to religion. He suddenly saw that human beings could be said to have essentially five different kinds of need: on the one hand, the psychological or what one could term, without any mysticism being meant by the word, the spiritual and on the other, the material. For Maslow, we all start with a set of utterly non-negotiable and basic physiological needs, for food, water, warmth and rest. In addition, we have urgent safety needs for bodily security and protection from attack. But then we start to enter the spiritual domain. We need belongingness and love. We need friends and lovers; we need esteem and respect. And Lastly, and most grandly, we are driven by what Maslow called - in a now legendary term - an urge for self-actualization: a vast touchingly nebulous, and yet hugely apt concept involving what Maslow described as ‘living according to one's full potential’ and ‘becoming who we really are’. Part of the reason why the description of these needs, laid out in pyramid form has, proved so persuasive is their capacity to capture, with elemental simplicity, a profound structural truth about human existence. Maslow was putting his finger, with unusual deftness and precision, on a set of answers to very large questions that tend to confuse and perplex us viciously, particularly when we are young, namely: What are we really after? What do we long for? And how do we arrange our priorities and give and give due regard for the different and competing claims we have on our attention? Maslow was reminding us with artistic concision of the shape of an ideal well-lived life, proposing at once that we cannot live by our spiritual callings alone, but also that it cannot be right to remain focused only on the material either. We need, to be whole, both the material and the spiritual realms to be attended to, the base lending support while the summit offers upward direction and definition. Maslow was rebutting calls from two kinds of zealots: firstly, over-ardent spiritual types who might urge us to forget entirely about money, housing, a good insurance policy and enough to pay for lunch. But he was also fighting against extreme hard-nosed pragmatists who might imply that life was simply a bread process of putting food on the table and going to the office. Both camps had - for Maslow - misunderstood the complexity of the human animal. Unlike other creatures, we truly are multifaceted, called at once to unfurl our soul according to its inner destiny - and to make sure we'll be able to pay the bills at the end of the month. Operating at the heyday of American capitalism, Maslow was interestingly ambivalent about business. He was awed by the material resources of large corporations around him but at the same time he lamented that almost all their economic activity was - unfairly and bizarrely - focused on honouring customers’ needs at the bottom of his pyramid. America’s largest companies were helping people to have a roof over their heads, feeding them, moving them around and ensuring they could talk to each other long-distance. But they seemed utterly uninterested in trying to fulfil the essential spiritual appetites defined on the higher slopes of his pyramid. Towards the end of his long life, Maslow expressed a hope that businesses could in time learn to make more of their profits from addressing not only our basic needs but also - and as importantly - our higher spiritual and psychological ones as well. That would be truly enlightened capitalism. In the personal sphere, Maslow's pyramid remains a hugely useful object to turn to whenever we're trying to assess the direction of our lives. Often, as we reflect upon it, we start to notice that we really haven't arranged and balanced our needs as wisely and elegantly as we might. Some lives have gotten implausible wide base: all the energy seems directed towards material accumulation. At the same time, there are lives with an opposite problem, where we have not paid due heed to our need to look after our fragile and vulnerable bodies. Maslow's beautifully simple visual cue is, above anything else, a portrait of a life lived in harmony with the complexities of our nature. We should, at our less frantic moments, use it to reflect with newfound focus on what it is we might do next.
Well we shouldn't expect our teachers to feed everything to our half empty brain man. With all the technologies we have this generation. ....you can search almost a bit of anything. Learn to discover by ur own. Teach yourself.
Maslow's Hierarchy is good for figuring out what to do next. You may wish for self-actualization, as that is the ideal, but you can't get there until your other needs are met. If you feel stuck it helps to know where exactly on the pyramid you're stuck.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs explains the best day of my life. Walking down a quiet street one day, I had a most profound 'stop and smell the roses' experience. Suddenly the natural world appeared so much more beautiful then ever before, and an overwhelming appreciation for the miracle of life followed. I was taught Maslow's Hierarchy in high school and related my experience to having reached self-actualisation. Wishing that everyone has the opportunity to experience this in their lifetime, peace and love to all :)
Hierarchy of Needs is for estimate people need. The diagram can work with many outlook. You can stuck on island with no food, no all kind of shit but you can set for self actualization before you dead...
This is not self-actualisation per se but a "peak experience" so don't listen to the people in the comments, your experience is 100% related to Maslow's theory :) keep being present
@@Weareyoungsorry I was learning about this in business management class a few months back and the context was therefore very practical and something to achieve in a physical sense. I think it applies more to a physical sense because all stages contain a set of practical experiences to have in order to finally achieve self actualisation. For example, stage 1 food, water shelter etc. Stage 2 (forgot), stage 3 having good social ties and friends, stage 4 (forgot), stage 5 self-actualization. I forgot the stages, and I have an exam in a couple weeks, I should get revising!
I always thought of the chart as a road rather than a triangle. When basic survival is right in front of you, self actualization always seems far away. Also if you are distracted into looking down at the ground in front of you, you are no longer looking down the road to where you should be headed
Why not make them both linear. You can have them all in one go. Self actualization is too overrated, it is only an ego to be seen by others. Self actualization is not that far, it is near
I like to think that it's a nice reason, maybe he's not ready for a relationship, or he thinks you're not ready either, it all depends the age, the common goals and all the parts that make a relationship
I first learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when I read about how to write character motivations. I learned that if one of our human needs goes missing, then we would get driven to do anything to get that human need back. This theory would not only help in helping writers to create characters, but also make them relatable and likable.
Meeting our needs can help with anxiety. I would get anxiety when my need for safety wasn't met. And when I took small breaks and deep breaths it got better. Also, self respect is honoring our needs.
Maslow’s theory is my most favourite in deed. I wish everyone must chew it and would understand it. I can speak hours to discuss it correlating to every socio-economic tier.
As much I respect your passion for Maslow's works, I think it's quite logical to say that brands or luxury promotes a false sense of self-actualization but indeed in some senses that's enough to make us feel as if it does but it's dogma and I am looking forward to debating this issue :)
@@glossywork I think it is heavily dependent on what a person wants from life, philosphicaly and it can also change throughout their lives. However, regarding brands and such, I would debate more that they belong to the esteem or belongingness category, afterall, you want to show that you belong to the group that is wearing the brand or you want to show others that you are able to efford the expensive clothing, demanding respect. I would argue that many people, especially younger wants, do not necessarily think about self-actualization to an extend as people more interested in psychology or philosophy do. I am, however, more intersted in the security step of the hierarchy, as nowadays, you have many people taking unnecssary risks for one reason or another (either to belong in a group or for esteem/actualization reasons, with stuff like people doing extreme sports, which in itself is a security risk)
@@NoFlu It's actually the opposite, what you want from life is dependant on where you are on the pyramid. For example if you are worried about feeding your family then security is going to be more important. But if you come from a rich family then extreme sports makes sense since you are more focused on maximising your potential and becoming someone who isn't afraid of danger. Caring about your identity or what you do for a living is the ultimate luxury. Want to find the socialist or the body builder? look for the old money.
You've missed the entire point of the pyramid. The point is that foundational needs must be met before spiritual needs can be addressed. A starving man being chased by a tiger don't care about self-actualization.
The point is that people do noble and beautiful things without their basic physiological needs being met, even if it kills them. They do them without their safety needs being met, heroically.
The video is incredibly beautiful and well done. Congrats for that! I live in Brazil and I am a researcher in the field of Organizational Psychology, with a special interest in new management systems. Maslow's theory has been the based of my Master Degree. In general, the concepts presented in the video are ok. However, there is an essential misreading of Maslow's theory, that has been replicated in the video. Abraham Maslow has NEVER represented his "Theory of Hierarchy of Needs" into a triangle or pyramid. The information that pyramid has been seen in the 1943 paper is not accurate. In fact, this is the date of Maslow's article "A Theory of Human Motivation" publication. The pyramid only has been "created" or "released" in papers from other authors in the early 60's. The Pyramid of Maslow has not been created by Maslow - that is a shocker. Representing a complex and rich theory such as Maslow's Hierachy of Needs into a pyramid has been a big disservice to the management field. The translation of the theory (and the way it has been (mis)replicated over and over) supposes that a person would need to fulfill their basic needs BEFORE they could connect and even recognize more complex and individualized needs. (What in the video is called spiritual needs, is referred to as "being needs" for Maslow.). If that's to be the truth, a beggar would not need love - I know this statement is also oversimplified, but it is just to bring critical analysis... Another example of this misinterpretation is McGregor's affirmation that “The man whose lower-level needs are satisfied is not motivated to satisfy those needs. For practical purposes, they exist no longer.” Maslow has never stated that. Actually he was quite careful on pointing out that the hierarchy of need is relative and not absolute. He felt that people could have multiple needs unfulfilled at the same time and be motivated by many of them. Also, it is very important to highlight that this theory, if considered as a pyramid or staircase (another common misrepresentation) would ignore different cultural priorities in each society, that highly influence higher needs, due to social pressure. A deeper research on Maslow's work could result in a richer understanding of his view on human motivation, much broader and more meaningful than this fake pyramid. ;^)
When you’re starving or near starving and/or homeless and trying to sleep in the cold , how much do you think one has energy to devote to building even casual connections with people ? If I’m especially hungry I don’t know about you but I can barely think straight or focus on anything because my hunger is all consuming and often accompanied with nausea that I can’t think one coherent thought .
@@SleeplessinOC Have you really experienced hunger, or are you referring to apetite? When you are hungry (as you describe), would you bite or attack the server of a restaurante-food delivery-etc.? What Maslow afirms is that if you have a basic need completely unsatisfied (such as hunger, indeed), you would have difficulty to connect to a higher need or a more social-ethic analysis. Still, if you need to kill someone to get food, it would not be a friend or family - which means, your selection would be based on higher and more complex connections. (I know the example is pretty extreme, but it is just to understand the general concept).
One of the hardest concepts to grasp when it comes to relaying the strongest findings of org. psychology is that others will only accept them when they are ‘ready’ to accept them. The business school text books are where you will find the pervasive use of the pyramid. In psychology “Maslow’s Pyramid” is discussed very briefly as a cautionary tale of how concepts can be misrepresented and become pervasive. We must also keep in mind the zeitgeist Maslow lived within. His subjects of his studies were nearly all wealthy, educated peoples. Even a dog can be starved and still love. A monk can neglect most needs and still self actualize. Examples that contradict a hierarchy of needs are more common than those that would confirm. Though again, most only accept what they are ready to accept.
Guys remember this is an idea to get you thinking and do not blindly accept ideas of how your life is supposed to be. This is a fantastic realization by Maslow and he makes great points. I have been studying self development for 6 years, and this is congruent.
Agreed. While they are undoubtedly useful in some situations, models and ideas such as this are by no means universally accurate, and I think it irresponsible for a channel giving life advice to present it at face value like this.
You are the only thing that exist. So you are imagining me and i'm imagining you but you're imagining me imagining you and i'm imagining you imagining me. Two mirrors facing each other into infinity. So you are imagining that I have a conscious experience separate from your own and by imagining it you are hallucinating it into existence. You're creating it. You are constructing all of reality but you're not conscious of how your doing it and the ego mind is not in control of how it's being done. Imagine that you had such a powerful imagination that you could imagine an apple and you imagined it so strongly that it would physically materialize right in front of you.🍎. That's literally what is happening. The floor your sitting on is literally that.
@@alegriart of course ,social belongingness is vital, but we can go without belongingness for many days. But without water ,food you can't pass even 2,3 days. That's what Maslow is trying to tell here. If there's no food, there's no question of social belongingness. If we put two friends in a cell and give them a fruit after 2 weeks,social belongingness will know it's place.
When you think you've actually met them, and still see homelessness as a realistic option, and can't differentiate if that is actually because of capitalism or socialism. Hmm.
I never reach the 3rd step, but have sometimes reached the 4th and 5th steps. Without the 3rd step fulfilled, it is impossible to have the top two parts of the pyramid hold any meaning, neither for the bottom two. The 3rd step is the glue that ties the 1-2 & 4-5 steps together. You can have all your physiolgical needs met (not uncommon in modern siciety) and yet it is all corrupted because you don't feel loved. You can get all the attention in the world, and be at one with you talent but with the everlooming 3rd step remaining unfulfilled shall remind you that you are unworthy.
This reminds me so much of my high school psychology class with my favorite teacher ever Mr. Kochel in the year 2009 learning about Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs.. ah the good ol days though they’re not too far in the past. I’m here watching his video on my phone in my truck at work. Fulfilling several of these needs concurrently.
Ryan Small absolutely. In later years Maslow revised this theory because he realised how incomplete it was. So frustrating that the ‘self-actualisation’ model is so often taught as the complete version. Come on School of life!
i wonder what percentage of people on earth actually have all 5? 50% divorce rates, most common answer of close friends is zero, most people living in poverty, menial jobs, seems like less than 5% to me
@@swausgebouwen143 Business Studies for high school just basic before go to business school... If you not going business school best job you get was a temp store manager.
Not to come off as mean or offensive but the fact that you need to know the 7 basic needs of a happy human life for some "high" level college classroom instead of inately says alot
In Master level, we already conclusion that any of stage can take priority to a person. You can stuck on island with no food, no all kind of shit but you can set for self actualization before you dead... You can care more for thing you want and don't had enough for food... You can satisfy with what already you had...
These are valid points as connectedness is definitely not a 'nice to have', but I think the idea is that you'll die from lack of food, shelter and violence, a lot quicker, hence attention to those is more urgent, in the first instance.
Great video as always Alain! Amazing how easy it is for people to misinterpret this model. It's not as simple as it appears. Most will get no where near self actualization, cos it takes a lot of self awareness and really knowing yourself, admitting your faults. Most people are deeply insecure and struggling with self esteem until they are middle age or older when they begin to care less. But that's okay
Maslow missed out a glaringly obvious need… the need to NOT kill ones self… there must be a need to stay alive which is even more basic than hunger, there is a need that exists that stops suicidal people from killing themselves, like fear curiosity belief, a need that motivates some to eat and drink etc
This is my theory: Maslow hierarchy explains why the higher suicidal rates are in the richest countries. People in poor countries doesn't have time to think in self-actualization or existential crisis, they are still at the bottom trying to survive searching for the basic incomes.
I'm stuck on the second stage of the hierarchy and all the advice I'm given is "love yourself first" but I can't truly love myself if I can't get to the fourth stage.
This is a misconception, the stages are not rigid barriers you express and meet multiples at the same time, its just one happens to be promimamt over the others. It is messed up that society says to love yourself first, its amazing to see it work the way maslow suggests and you can definitely feel the legs get kicked out from underneath you if you lose a partner or family member, but youre not stuck at stagr two.
Maslow's Hierarchy is perfectly fine - for high school children. Beyond that, one hopefully begins to recognize more and more that it fails adequately to cater to or to address the actual inter-dimensionality and complexity of human needs and evolutionary progress, individually and otherwise.
I think a 12 year old decently instructed in critical thought ought to be able to see the flaws in the premise of it, even if they lack the life experience to find specific counterexamples. Unfortunately, it would seem that many people do not independently think critically (e.g. current state of US politics).
Have you ever thought about this hierarchy not applying to the whole world but only those who live a life in Western hemisphere and whose basic needs happen to be met? Tell that to those who starve.
So U don't eat or sleep and have no safe place to sleep, no friends and people think you are an appalling human yet you're actualised? I want what your having
Taking a master training specialist qualification and stumbled on this post. CAREFUL! with this author's summation of the differences between the sections of Maslow's pyramid. Material vs. Spiritual is a vital conflict and transition in ones life. The author adeptly presents the oppositional efforts of the the first two sections of Maslow's pyramid of material survival as a transgressions towards the upper three sections of the Spiritual. The ERROR of presentation then comes when the author then builds their argument upon the upper sections by criticizing the myopic efforts of the material, then re-iterating the negative summation of material pursuits, without applying the same measures to the upper part of the Maslow's Pyramid. To simplify, essentially by focusing only on the material issues i.e. "urged to focus on money and housing..." material pursuits, will result in neglect of upper Spiritual. However, when addressing the upper parts of the Spiritual the author begins their argument that material pursuits neglect the spiritual, then proceeds to contrast the next part to, where the audience expects a contrasting example of negative efforts of sole Spiritual, instead encounters a secondary, but identical argument that material is negative and spiritual is good. Only the negative results are derived by material pursuits, then re-enforced on the second part by over exaggerating the negativity of material pursuits. Sooo, the author's thesis essentially states that the base of the Maslow's Pyramid of material needs is negative, and only the upper spiritual is positive, completely neglecting Maslow's premise that the upper three section of Spiritual needs is supported on the base of non-neglectable base of two sections of material needs. Please reader take the time to establish if the video has a logical premise, or know you're proclivity to "go down the rabbit hole." Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or those who follow the fool?
Only a living entity can have goals or can originate them. And it is only a living organism that has the capacity for self-generated, goal-directed action. On the physical level, the functions of all living organisms, from the simplest to the most complex - from the nutritive function in the single cell of an amoeba to the blood circulation in the body of a man - are actions generated by the organism itself and directed to a single goal: the maintenance of the organism’s life. When applied to physical phenomena, such as the automatic functions of an organism, the term “goal-directed” is not to be taken to mean “purposive” (a concept applicable only to the actions of a consciousness) and is not to imply the existence of any teleological principle operating in insentient nature. I use the term “goal-directed,” in this context, to designate the fact that the automatic functions of living organisms are actions whose nature is such that they result in the preservation of an organism’s life. - Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, p.16
Businesses fulfilling our spiritual needs is what you call "enlightened capitalism"? Sorry, but I don't want a corporation tending to any of my spiritual needs.
@@brynethfuller6709 Corporations should stay out of morality and ideology. All corporations need to do is provide services/products, make money, and follow laws. That's it. Anything more than that is unnecessary at best and dystopian at worst.
I don't mean corporations, I mean the thrift store that gives their profits to a no kill animal shelter The pizza place that buys from local farmer's. The nursery that sells native plants and hosts seminars on how to help bees. I feel good buying and spending money on these places because they do good things. Things that end up tending to my need to help others.
This allows benefit for me, the seller and the people I don't see. Businesses that have morality, not feigned goodness, but actual morality would be wonderful to see in the world.
Thank you so much for this, Allain. TSOL always bridges the gap between complex, highly abstract theories and everyday problems in a way that seems pure magic. The answers have always been there, we just couldn’t see it.
It's such a shame that many cannot even get their physiological needs met let alone the other needs. Apparently a good life consists of wearing a blinder in order to disregard most peripheral vision, thus blocking out the suffering and hatred which permeates the bad energy that infuses our psyches.
I wonder if "wearing a blinder" can be considered as a part of protection? Cause it fits in perfectly if you think about it, although it is not a 'material' need
I literally always explain this pyramid to everyone I talk to because it is truly life changing and overlooked. It is so true the only people that can even get to the higher stages are people that have money. its not about having a lot of money itself but just enough to satisfy the basic physiological and safety needs so people can progress higher up into the pyramid.
Maslow's pyramid has since been criticized. Although there's a consensus on the fact that those needs are indeed real, the hierarchy in which they're represented has not been unanimously approved. Someone with low self-esteem might decide to stop eating or even kill himself.
@@asarahlime4749 what I meant is, in my example, you could have self-esteem at the base. Someone that doesn't have this might not event try to "climb" the pyramid. That's why this hierarchy is not necessarily true.
@timwins31This is great. 'Self Esteem' imo is made of up how we feel about ourselves (Childhood negative core beleifs) and how we can excute in the world towards getting our needs and desires met right now as an adult. Depression imo, for the most part, is the brain saying 'Hey, we need to stop and figure out this issue/problem'. Its the brains way of getting us to stop and put all resources on figuring out a problem. Its lack of progress like you said towards moving up the chain. Our self esteem only grows by solving problems, overcoming obstacles. Progress=happiness. People need to spend more time gaining clarity, clarity of there issues, wants and desires. Its not 'not having' that thing we are missing but lack of progress towards it or lack of clarity we are moving towards getting that void filled or whetever the challenges are in life in the momment. Think about this...There is defiantly a 'path' and a series of actions and decisions, goals we can make and start taking right now that would start the ball rolling towards getting our needs met, reaching more consistent happiness. We just dont know what to do, life is complex. When people know what they need to do, they don't suffer. They start taking action because they have clarity that taking these actions will improve xyz even in 2% increases a week. Its the overwhelm, lack of clarify that clogs us. Self esteem is only built by taking action and making progress. People with low self esteem need help on overcoming and making progress on there specific challenged right now in there lile
Maslow didn't create the pyramid, his ideas took form into a pyramid in a form of pop psychology. qz.com/work/1588491/maslow-didnt-make-the-pyramid-that-changed-management-history/.
I was learning about this in business management class a few months back and the context was therefore very practical and something to achieve in a physical sense. I think it applies more to a physical sense because all stages contain a set of practical experiences to have in order to finally achieve self actualisation. For example, stage 1 food, water shelter etc. Stage 2 (forgot), stage 3 having good social ties and friends, stage 4 (forgot), stage 5 self-actualization. I forgot the stages, and I have an exam in a couple weeks, I should get revising!
These talks are Bullshit and for people who have no value for money and good health.....most imp human need is money ....when u have the all problems solve automatically. Adv sanjay punjabi
I disagree with Maslow’s inclusion of love and belonging, especially when it serves as a barrier to esteem and self-actualization. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not devaluing love, I merely think its inclusion is dogmatic in nature. Not everyone has the luxury of finding friends or lovers, or having their intimacy needs met. Some people don’t have a place to belong. However, that doesn’t mean they’re unable to have confidence in their own abilities and make their way in life in spite of never being loved. Not everyone gets food, but people die without being fed. Nobody dies from being unloved unless they choose to. Love does make your life better, but it’s more of a luxury than a need, like an extra strip of bacon on a burger (if you’re into that). I also disagree with it being a barrier to self-actualization because love and belonging is extrinsic. People will only love you if they see you as worthy of their love. Why should people with no stakes in your path to self-actualization be an obstacle in your pursuit of it?
This video is partly bollocks. To start with one: Maslow never drew a pyramid. Secondly, Maslow came in the end to the realisation that self-transcendence, not self-actualisation is the ultimate goal. Thirdly, you can call the theory hardly a static hierarchy, more like a chain of actualisations; people are working continually on all stages.
I've always enjoyed these videos... That is until now... "Decisions Dice" that's a satirical joke, right? Please tell me it's not meant to be serious...
@@azalearichardson9113 other videos? No, the creators' intentions; and therefore my opinion of the channel as a whole, and the likelihood of my continued Patronage/ viewership... *YES* - Hence why I haven't really felt like watching this channel anymore... my good will/ "benefit of the doubt" has been tested - and now I question if they are deserving of my time.
“According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.” - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Yes, Maslow would agree. He doesn't claim any particular stage negates the others or keeps you solely stuck. We're multifaceted beings, striving for and needing it all - the material and the spiritual realms. We're ever fluid beings. This isn't a stage theory in which people get stuck in one particular stage because of one particular focus at one particular time. Stage theories have for the most part, been debunked. There's no horseshit, excepting your interpretation that's inaccurate and shortsighted. Maybe watch this again.
Great video, but the moving pattern at the end did very ugly things to my brain like you might expect flashing lights to do. I had great difficulty typing this comment and I am feeling very gross
The pyramid could cause confusion if it is viewed as a upward path toward self actualization. Take Safety for example. A person may be self actualized when they jump off a cliff with a wing suit on. Their relationship to safety is such that they risk safety to experience self actualization " For Them". They have transcended certain instincts of self preservation to fully experience life as they define it. The Hierarchy is useful in deciding what ones relationship will be to the individual elements of the Hierarchy but it is a two dimensional tool applied to three dimensional beings. Very little of the Hierarchy could be universally applied. We all breath oxygen but not everyone eats meat.
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I think I might move off the first rung soon and onto the second level (security). :P
I feel that I have achieved/realised all of these layers. However balancing them out is a life long process
The esteem respect shit is absolutely euphemistic stupid nonsense. What you need is a hard slap in the face exactly at stage four.
In my 20s I gave over importance to self actualization part which I sometimes regret now. At present working on building base (materialistic) part at 34 years of age!
My base is too wide. I'm trying to correct that. 🙂
Luxury lifestyle brands and social media companies hit esteem and self-actualization needs pretty well, however, they give only but shadows of those needs - a false sense of self-esteem and self-actualization.
Exactly my thoughts! Also, the brands back in Maslow's time only covered a very superficial layer of self actualization or simply used it as a trick to lure people into buying their products. In school, we have a subject called "Macht der Medien" (= the power of media), where we actually used Maslow's pyramid in order to create advertisements for chewing gum or blue jeans. The teachers didn't mention it, but after watching this video it became very clear what I had suspected before: Brands try to fool us into believing that they will have all of their higher needs fulfilled, when in reality, this is not at all the case. The chewing gum brand and advertisement I created focused on people who want to feel special and to be seen as someone independent (which in itself doesn't make a lot of sense, to want to be SEEN as someone INDEPENDENT). Hence, the poster I made featured a guy wearing wierd, colourful clothes and my slogan went: "Do the f*ck you want". If you bought this chewing gum, you'd maybe feel cool for a bit. But obviously, chewing a special gum isn't going to make you feel accomplished or authentic on the long run. After a month or two, no one will react to your special chewing gum anymore and you too will forget its inital meaning and just continue buying it because you've had them for a while now.
You're right. And influencer culture takes advantage of our need for relationships and belonging, again promising self-actualization when really they're just trying to sell us crap we barely have any need for.
Yes, because people living under capitalism have been, since childhood, taught to rely on commodities to create an identity for themselves. In our current times, identity is eliminated and replace with a new one just to keep buying more stuff. Basically, people are forced to buy and sense of belonging and fulfillment.
This is what neoliberalism is, where there is a market for everything; marketing and advertisements are the tools, to create a need (really a problem) and sell you the solution, but only temporarily, because you have to keep buying what they produce.
A rise in autism, adhd, depression, suicide, drug abuse is no coincidence. It is a symptom of the current system
Very well said!
@@vidividivicious mostly correct, though I don't think autism and adhd are caused by the environment. As far as I know you are born like that, not made.
*It's hard to care about virtue and humility when a person is hungry in every aspect of life.*
-osho
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Yes, it's very hard to have ideals on an empty stomach.
@@MrHlcg1962 totally disagree. many philosophers, artists, composers, writers, etc made inspiration from hardships in life.
archmad they are the exception. And the very rare also a minute part of the population. But I know where your coming from and I agree. Desperation can produce wonderful art and pieces. Thank you
I first learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when I went to grad school to study business and finance. It changed my life because it changed the way I SAW my life. My parents are survivors. They felt as long as I had the basics (food, clothing, shelter, health insurance) everything is fine. When it was time for me to go out into the "real world" they said, find a job that provides a retirement plan, health insurance and enough money to buy a house and a car. I wanted to be a filmmaker. Nope - they said filmmaking is for rich, white men - not for a poor, black woman.
I asked, once you have the basics covered, what is the point? What is the reason to keep living, using up the Earth's natural resources (like water), and not committing suicide? Seriously. There is a difference between surviving and living a fulfilling life. Before grad school, I knew I wanted to live, not just survive. I was once angry with my parents, but I forgave them because I realized only a self-actualized person can raise and support a self-actualized child. That's why it took me until my late 20s going to grad school to learn about this pyramid. Money makes the world go around so you need it to cover the basics (rent, food, etc). I always understood that. But everyone's ultimate goal should be financial freedom and self-actualization - no matter how long it takes to get there.
I wish you nothing but the best for your journey!
IKR about parents providing only the basics. They can’t imagine anything other than what they were taught and modeled by their own parents.
when I was an exchange student back in my childhood I went to an American school and lived in a host family (white Irish+Jewish origins). I always wondered why so many blacks were discriminated in the US in the 21 century the time when we have already landed on the Moon and trying to go further...
They (my host family) told me that the blacks had themselves to blame for the ongoing injustice and humiliation and this was LONG before the Black Lives Matter! I said to them NO this is wrong! It is the sole responsibility of the currant Government to distribute the resources and the state budget evenly! It's not right to see the poor getting poorer, while the rich getting fatter...They said it's life it's CAPITALISM.....
Dear MJ Burgess: It is rare to see such an intelligent comment on RUclips and I agree with all you say. However, you must understand that there exist actual social forces bent on ensuring that average Americans NEVER reach a level of true self actualization. In fact, under the Patriot Act, a citizen who achieves true self actualization in their life might be considered a "national security threat".
After a 30 year award winning career as a teacher in NYC schools, John Taylor Gatto spent the rest of his life crucifying in print the American Public School System. His bottom line conclusion was that the explicit purpose of public education is actually not to educate the student at all but to "dumb him down" instead. Gatto saw the purpose of public education being the production of "automatons", or robots for the corporate business world, willing to do their assigned tasks devoid of any real thought about them. Gatto himself asserts that including any consideration of "critical thinking" into public school curricula would be a threat to the Capitalist status quo.
And that's just the beginning. In 30 years as a consumer debt collector, I had ample opportunity to see how manipulative and often untrue advertising unfairly persuades millions of people to sink into the pit of "debt slavery" where their paychecks are spent on bills even before they even receive them. In her recent book "Divining Desire", Liza Featherstone reveals how Big Business advertising employs social psychologists whose job it is to produce ads and commercials that are psychologically irresistible to the consumer.
Our Capitalist society doesn't want self actualized human beings. They want cogs that fit into the Capitalist machine. On the consumer side that means keeping people engrossed with their lower level needs. That also makes people politically malleable because their thought processes never become developed enough to question the status quo.
Yes, indeed it is possible to reach true self actualization in this life, but you must recognize the forces that are working against you before you just waste your time. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
MJ, this is a beautiful reply.
"Man does not live by bread alone."
Vir Quisque Vir Is that a quote from the Bible
Water, bread and sex
@@ernestoglez6725 logical(for most)....but those who are on the higher platforms of knowledge care or think about these things very less. It has to happen organically, there is a process and experiential journey towards that stage of life.A few fortunate ones enjoy that. This is my opinion which is formed by contemplation ,reading and other means of learning.I hope you understand what I mean.
he gotta fuck too.
Yes needs chocolate too. A bit of alcohol maybe also..
Anyone else in their 40s and still in the bottom 2? Thanks trauma.
In some ways yeah, in others no. Funny comment though :)
Yes. That 3rd level is seeming more and more impossible with every year.
@@tianat_rn pro tip for female happiness: stay away from feminism
Everyone can access therapy, and it's worth doing, because it's worth it for yourself and everyone around you ❤
You guys should start a podcast.
alex gonzales up
Yeah I'd listen
YES
This is uncanny. I was just thinking i want to listen to this while doing something else lol
alex gonzales yes!
During Maslow's time, his country was still a developing one and the people could not afford to move up their needs.
" To be able to worry about meaning of life, is truly a luxury"
Nonsense. America and western Europe in Maslow's time were mature industrial societies where basic needs were met and all young people got married. People doubtless had an easier time moving up their needs heirarchy in the 1950's than today.
@@somerandomvertebrate9262 nope.
@@parthnagda3775 lol. You're probably some young dude cut off from the past, and by the looks of it not even European. So what do you know about the fifties, Parth?
Parth Nagda Can I ask you, where you got that quote from? I would very much appreciate it if you could point me towards the source
@@somerandomvertebrate9262 nope
Sad thing is: Most people try to educate children by denying them the fulfillment of their needs. This results in humans who are very uncertain about the love they deserve and the amount of love they really own. I really hope we somehow learn to bypass this strategy of conditioning and enable our children to live to their full potential.
yes, it's sad when religion (the spiritual) is used to justify utter neglect, abuse, and poverty...so sooo damaging
Its more than a little distressing when adults in a child's life withhold love, affection, and approval as a sort of carrot to encourage acomplishment. Poeple do this and then wonder why there are so many adults who are so deeply damaged and psychospiritually unwell. Only in a culture as obsessed with wealth, power, and prestige as the modern West is would this be seen as healthy or in any way a "good" idea.
@robert martin part of growing up is learning you don't always get what you want or need in life, just because you have "needs" doesn't mean you deserve or are entitled to their fulfilment, or would be provided with it. I'm asian, you guys in the west dwell too much, you don't have nearly as much social problems as you think
Pei Qiaoqiao pain can be big or small. Someone in the west has a dying friend and you wouldn’t know. But perhaps in the east a large earthquake killed hundreds. Would the person in the west care? Perhaps. Because in the end both sides of the spectrum experienced loss. No matter how big nor how small. Because even a speck of sympathy can open a pathway for empathy and vulnerability.
@@noice2606 that's the problem, fishing and relying on other people's sympathy don't make people happy, it makes people entitled and needy, and resentful when they don't have their emotional needs met. At the end of the day, the only person that's responsible for your emotions is you.
"The School of Life" is Maslow's dream come true ;-)
@The Confusing Riddle
*Wut da Fuk, WUT you Ignorant ChiLd MoLester!!!?????*
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One problem with the hierarchy, researchers found, is that people often seek these needs in a different order that Maslow proposes (Maslow would say higher needs do not appear until lower needs are met).
Maslow also wrote a book called,"Towards a Psychology of Being," which serves as a sequel to the hierarchy of needs: It defines what self-actualization actually is. One thing Maslow says in the book, is that many psychological disorders appear when the hierarchy isn't met, and that the disorder disappears once certain needs are met (He says a large body of research shows this).
One more interesting thing Maslow says, which was probably inspired by Taoism. He says seeing people as need-fulfillers can make us hostile to others when we see they are not fulfilling our needs. Behavior people have unrelated to our needs might anger or annoy us. We also only focus-like tunnel vision-on what people do to satisfy our needs, and not see the other person holistically. In contrast, Self-Actualized people see other people as they are, holistically, and do not feel they "need" the other person, yet can still love/admire/respect them for their whole person. Maslow adds more to the difference between need-deficient love and Self-Actualized love. Edit: Self-Actualized people tend to feel both need-deficient love and Self-Actualized love, (Maslow says both kinds of love are needed for a good social relationship).
Makes sense.
If someone sells fruits, and they usually sell me strawberries as I only like strawberries as a fruit, but today they ran out and can no longer sell strawberries for today.
I would naturally take a hostile action and not buy fruit from there, and no one would blame me, the need is unable to be fulfilled there, so I will refrain from trying to fulfill it there, which would benefit him if I did try to buy his fruit.
People would say that makes sense, even the store owner though he'd dislike not having a customer would understand.
Now if I go there to buy fruit but I also know the store owner is a hard working individual, and always gives me some extra strawberries because they appreciate me as a consistent character, even if they don't have strawberries I'll still buy something because whether I buy or not is no longer about the fruit, but the fact I wish to support the store owner who I believe has a good character
Great insight. Thank you.
It’s also possible he picked that up from his Jewish education and his relationship with his mother
That's not the issue with hierarchy, that's issue with people
*What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself*
*I'm aware that my passion is making animated videos*
An awareness.
Its hard to change ignorant people but when you want hem to do something tell them to do that thing in such a way that they get something for doing it. Suppose the person likes basket ball and you want then to chsnge their attitude causr they are rude. You can say "If you dont change your attitude then you may not be in a team." or you can talk about that one player who got fired because their attitude sucked
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*YES!!! I am Addicted too,*
*Here is WUT OATS do to me: Heart Throbs, Sore Throat,*
*Hocking Mucus, COMA, Bloated, Ankles SweLL, Itch Bumps,*
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*I Think I'LL QUIT GranoLa Bars & Cereal!!!!*
Nothing wrong with eating, makes you no less worthy, we are biologically made, hence food, no different then most animals, birds etc. I love the comment's on here. Eating is also a social thing increasing our happy meter.
@@Justin.Martyr are you still there? What happened
FULL TRANSCRIPT: One of the most legendary ideas in the history of psychology Is located in an unassuming triangle Divided into 5 sections referred to universally simply as ‘Maslow's pyramid of needs’. This profoundly influential pyramid first saw the world in an academic Journal in the United States in 1943 where it was crudely drawn in black and white and surrounded by dense and jargon-rich text. It has since become a mainstay of psychological analyses, business presentations and TED talks - and grown ever more colourful and emphatic in the process. The pyramid was the work of 35-year-old Jewish psychologist Of Russian origins called Abraham Maslow, who had been looking, since the start of his professional career for nothing less than the meaning of life. No longer part of the Close-knit orthodox family of his youth, Maslow wanted to find out what could make life purposeful for people (himself included) in modern-day America a country where the pursuit of money And fame seemed to have eclipsed anymore interior or authentic aspirations.
He saw Psychology as the discipline that would enable him to answer the yearnings and questions that people had once taken to religion. He suddenly saw that human beings could be said to have essentially five different kinds of need: on the one hand, the psychological or what one could term, without any mysticism being meant by the word, the spiritual and on the other, the material. For Maslow, we all start with a set of utterly non-negotiable and basic physiological needs, for food, water, warmth and rest. In addition, we have urgent safety needs for bodily security and protection from attack. But then we start to enter the spiritual domain. We need belongingness and love. We need friends and lovers; we need esteem and respect. And Lastly, and most grandly, we are driven by what Maslow called - in a now legendary term - an urge for self-actualization: a vast touchingly nebulous, and yet hugely apt concept involving what Maslow described as ‘living according to one's full potential’ and ‘becoming who we really are’. Part of the reason why the description of these needs, laid out in pyramid form has, proved so persuasive is their capacity to capture, with elemental simplicity, a profound structural truth about human existence. Maslow was putting his finger, with unusual deftness and precision, on a set of answers to very large questions that tend to confuse and perplex us viciously, particularly when we are young, namely: What are we really after? What do we long for? And how do we arrange our priorities and give and give due regard for the different and competing claims we have on our attention? Maslow was reminding us with artistic concision of the shape of an ideal well-lived life, proposing at once that we cannot live by our spiritual callings alone, but also that it cannot be right to remain focused only on the material either. We need, to be whole, both the material and the spiritual realms to be attended to, the base lending support while the summit offers upward direction and definition. Maslow was rebutting calls from two kinds of zealots: firstly, over-ardent spiritual types who might urge us to forget entirely about money, housing, a good insurance policy and enough to pay for lunch. But he was also fighting against extreme hard-nosed pragmatists who might imply that life was simply a bread process of putting food on the table and going to the office. Both camps had - for Maslow - misunderstood the complexity of the human animal. Unlike other creatures, we truly are multifaceted, called at once to unfurl our soul according to its inner destiny - and to make sure we'll be able to pay the bills at the end of the month. Operating at the heyday of American capitalism, Maslow was interestingly ambivalent about business. He was awed by the material resources of large corporations around him but at the same time he lamented that almost all their economic activity was - unfairly and bizarrely - focused on honouring customers’ needs at the bottom of his pyramid. America’s largest companies were helping people to have a roof over their heads, feeding them, moving them around and ensuring they could talk to each other long-distance. But they seemed utterly uninterested in trying to fulfil the essential spiritual appetites defined on the higher slopes of his pyramid. Towards the end of his long life, Maslow expressed a hope that businesses could in time learn to make more of their profits from addressing not only our basic needs but also - and as importantly - our higher spiritual and psychological ones as well. That would be truly enlightened capitalism. In the personal sphere, Maslow's pyramid remains a hugely useful object to turn to whenever we're trying to assess the direction of our lives. Often, as we reflect upon it, we start to notice that we really haven't arranged and balanced our needs as wisely and elegantly as we might. Some lives have gotten implausible wide base: all the energy seems directed towards material accumulation. At the same time, there are lives with an opposite problem, where we have not paid due heed to our need to look after our fragile and vulnerable bodies. Maslow's beautifully simple visual cue is, above anything else, a portrait of a life lived in harmony with the complexities of our nature. We should, at our less frantic moments, use it to reflect with newfound focus on what it is we might do next.
Thank you!!!
Sometimes I wish I were a dolphin, would have seen the ocean and died a peaceful death without thinking about 'human stuff'
Most People would rather Die than think. How do you know Dolphins don't Struggle thinking about Dolphin Stuff????
You were a dolphin. This is your next level.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 so long and thanks for all the Fish
You are still a dolphin....😂😂😂
Until you suffocate in a Tuna net.
*This explained Maslow 's hierarchy of needs better than my college professors when I was in college 😂*
Kumar's Gaming man so true😂😂
Well we shouldn't expect our teachers to feed everything to our half empty brain man. With all the technologies we have this generation. ....you can search almost a bit of anything.
Learn to discover by ur own. Teach yourself.
@αlιуαн yeah. I agree and I do give honest evaluation as well. ☺
Kumar's Gaming & alll in just 6mins 🤷♂️🤦♂️ goes to show what we’re paying for ain’t worth it🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Reenthroned Prof people pay money to go college... the should be competent enough to be able to articulate a theory..cmon man 👀👀🤦♂️🤷♂️
Maslow's Hierarchy is good for figuring out what to do next. You may wish for self-actualization, as that is the ideal, but you can't get there until your other needs are met. If you feel stuck it helps to know where exactly on the pyramid you're stuck.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs explains the best day of my life.
Walking down a quiet street one day, I had a most profound 'stop and smell the roses' experience. Suddenly the natural world appeared so much more beautiful then ever before, and an overwhelming appreciation for the miracle of life followed. I was taught Maslow's Hierarchy in high school and related my experience to having reached self-actualisation.
Wishing that everyone has the opportunity to experience this in their lifetime, peace and love to all :)
That's not about Maslow, that's just a state of flow and being mindful of your existence. It's not "self actualization"
@@Bc232klm Exactly what I thought. I'm glad I won't be the one perceived as an asshole for saying it
Hierarchy of Needs is for estimate people need. The diagram can work with many outlook. You can stuck on island with no food, no all kind of shit but you can set for self actualization before you dead...
This is not self-actualisation per se but a "peak experience" so don't listen to the people in the comments, your experience is 100% related to Maslow's theory :) keep being present
@@Weareyoungsorry I was learning about this in business management class a few months back and the context was therefore very practical and something to achieve in a physical sense. I think it applies more to a physical sense because all stages contain a set of practical experiences to have in order to finally achieve self actualisation. For example, stage 1 food, water shelter etc. Stage 2 (forgot), stage 3 having good social ties and friends, stage 4 (forgot), stage 5 self-actualization.
I forgot the stages, and I have an exam in a couple weeks, I should get revising!
well sht, I just got an ad before this video about procrastination and how it's linked to low self-esteem
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I always thought of the chart as a road rather than a triangle. When basic survival is right in front of you, self actualization always seems far away. Also if you are distracted into looking down at the ground in front of you, you are no longer looking down the road to where you should be headed
Why not make them both linear. You can have them all in one go. Self actualization is too overrated, it is only an ego to be seen by others. Self actualization is not that far, it is near
My boyfriend broke up with me. He citied Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as his reason.
It is either a solid reason or a complete crap made by theory excuses 😑
@@JW-uq9yt man probably said he wasn’t ready for love
I like to think that it's a nice reason, maybe he's not ready for a relationship, or he thinks you're not ready either, it all depends the age, the common goals and all the parts that make a relationship
Where was he at in his life? Did he have a job to cover his basic needs?
I first learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when I read about how to write character motivations. I learned that if one of our human needs goes missing, then we would get driven to do anything to get that human need back. This theory would not only help in helping writers to create characters, but also make them relatable and likable.
Well said
Meeting our needs can help with anxiety. I would get anxiety when my need for safety wasn't met. And when I took small breaks and deep breaths it got better. Also, self respect is honoring our needs.
Maslow’s theory is my most favourite in deed. I wish everyone must chew it and would understand it. I can speak hours to discuss it correlating to every socio-economic tier.
As much I respect your passion for Maslow's works, I think it's quite logical to say that brands or luxury promotes a false sense of self-actualization but indeed in some senses that's enough to make us feel as if it does but it's dogma and I am looking forward to debating this issue :)
@@glossywork I think it is heavily dependent on what a person wants from life, philosphicaly and it can also change throughout their lives.
However, regarding brands and such, I would debate more that they belong to the esteem or belongingness category, afterall, you want to show that you belong to the group that is wearing the brand or you want to show others that you are able to efford the expensive clothing, demanding respect.
I would argue that many people, especially younger wants, do not necessarily think about self-actualization to an extend as people more interested in psychology or philosophy do. I am, however, more intersted in the security step of the hierarchy, as nowadays, you have many people taking unnecssary risks for one reason or another (either to belong in a group or for esteem/actualization reasons, with stuff like people doing extreme sports, which in itself is a security risk)
@@NoFlu It's actually the opposite, what you want from life is dependant on where you are on the pyramid. For example if you are worried about feeding your family then security is going to be more important. But if you come from a rich family then extreme sports makes sense since you are more focused on maximising your potential and becoming someone who isn't afraid of danger. Caring about your identity or what you do for a living is the ultimate luxury. Want to find the socialist or the body builder? look for the old money.
*So i had a POM exam today and i wish video was uploaded yesterday* 😂 could've been helpful!!
You've missed the entire point of the pyramid. The point is that foundational needs must be met before spiritual needs can be addressed. A starving man being chased by a tiger don't care about self-actualization.
But the better his self esteem, the faster he'll run...!
The greater his need to survive is, the faster he'll run.
The point is that people do noble and beautiful things without their basic physiological needs being met, even if it kills them. They do them without their safety needs being met, heroically.
@@Mcfirefly2 That's a sacrifice which is exceptional to what would generally happen.
The video is incredibly beautiful and well done. Congrats for that!
I live in Brazil and I am a researcher in the field of Organizational Psychology, with a special interest in new management systems. Maslow's theory has been the based of my Master Degree.
In general, the concepts presented in the video are ok. However, there is an essential misreading of Maslow's theory, that has been replicated in the video.
Abraham Maslow has NEVER represented his "Theory of Hierarchy of Needs" into a triangle or pyramid. The information that pyramid has been seen in the 1943 paper is not accurate. In fact, this is the date of Maslow's article "A Theory of Human Motivation" publication. The pyramid only has been "created" or "released" in papers from other authors in the early 60's. The Pyramid of Maslow has not been created by Maslow - that is a shocker.
Representing a complex and rich theory such as Maslow's Hierachy of Needs into a pyramid has been a big disservice to the management field. The translation of the theory (and the way it has been (mis)replicated over and over) supposes that a person would need to fulfill their basic needs BEFORE they could connect and even recognize more complex and individualized needs. (What in the video is called spiritual needs, is referred to as "being needs" for Maslow.). If that's to be the truth, a beggar would not need love - I know this statement is also oversimplified, but it is just to bring critical analysis...
Another example of this misinterpretation is McGregor's affirmation that “The man whose lower-level needs are satisfied is not motivated to satisfy those needs. For practical purposes, they exist no longer.” Maslow has never stated that. Actually he was quite careful on pointing out that the hierarchy of need is relative and not absolute. He felt that people could have multiple needs unfulfilled at the same time and be motivated by many of them.
Also, it is very important to highlight that this theory, if considered as a pyramid or staircase (another common misrepresentation) would ignore different cultural priorities in each society, that highly influence higher needs, due to social pressure.
A deeper research on Maslow's work could result in a richer understanding of his view on human motivation, much broader and more meaningful than this fake pyramid. ;^)
When you’re starving or near starving and/or homeless and trying to sleep in the cold , how much do you think one has energy to devote to building even casual connections with people ? If I’m especially hungry I don’t know about you but I can barely think straight or focus on anything because my hunger is all consuming and often accompanied with nausea that I can’t think one coherent thought .
I am perplexed as to why your comment only has 12 likes(now 13).
@@SleeplessinOC Have you really experienced hunger, or are you referring to apetite? When you are hungry (as you describe), would you bite or attack the server of a restaurante-food delivery-etc.?
What Maslow afirms is that if you have a basic need completely unsatisfied (such as hunger, indeed), you would have difficulty to connect to a higher need or a more social-ethic analysis. Still, if you need to kill someone to get food, it would not be a friend or family - which means, your selection would be based on higher and more complex connections. (I know the example is pretty extreme, but it is just to understand the general concept).
One of the hardest concepts to grasp when it comes to relaying the strongest findings of org. psychology is that others will only accept them when they are ‘ready’ to accept them.
The business school text books are where you will find the pervasive use of the pyramid. In psychology “Maslow’s Pyramid” is discussed very briefly as a cautionary tale of how concepts can be misrepresented and become pervasive.
We must also keep in mind the zeitgeist Maslow lived within. His subjects of his studies were nearly all wealthy, educated peoples.
Even a dog can be starved and still love. A monk can neglect most needs and still self actualize. Examples that contradict a hierarchy of needs are more common than those that would confirm.
Though again, most only accept what they are ready to accept.
Guys remember this is an idea to get you thinking and do not blindly accept ideas of how your life is supposed to be. This is a fantastic realization by Maslow and he makes great points. I have been studying self development for 6 years, and this is congruent.
Agreed. While they are undoubtedly useful in some situations, models and ideas such as this are by no means universally accurate, and I think it irresponsible for a channel giving life advice to present it at face value like this.
Fact: You cannot go into self-actualization/successful self without fulfilling first the physiological/basic needs.
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I think that is perhaps something I have learned today.
Nope.... its quiet the opposite for me!
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You are the only thing that exist. So you are imagining me and i'm imagining you but you're imagining me imagining you and i'm imagining you imagining me. Two mirrors facing each other into infinity. So you are imagining that I have a conscious experience separate from your own and by imagining it you are hallucinating it into existence. You're creating it. You are constructing all of reality but you're not conscious of how your doing it and the ego mind is not in control of how it's being done. Imagine that you had such a powerful imagination that you could imagine an apple and you imagined it so strongly that it would physically materialize right in front of you.🍎. That's literally what is happening. The floor your sitting on is literally that.
Layer 6: Wifi
Layer 7: Battery
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what you don't have LTE on ur phone or something?
U guys are a dime a dozen didn't u know? I'm a human in a zoo, and everyday is pychological acid bath lol.
This was discussed while I was in school for Marketing/International Business.
Steph anis that's quite scary that the pyramid is being used as a tool in marketing
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd Didn't end up doing anything with the degree, waste of time for the most part besides studying Ethics/Economics.
@@Rooted_Locs I didn't think of it being scary really, but there were some questionable things being taught in Ethics.
Yep. Also taught in my CED class under the Marketing section.
If they just discussed about it.... It not a good school... Any real professional would tell you that. It just one of basic diagram.. ...
It's included in my psychiatry class,I think it's almost taught everywhere
Yeah
@@alegriart of course ,social belongingness is vital, but we can go without belongingness for many days. But without water ,food you can't pass even 2,3 days. That's what Maslow is trying to tell here. If there's no food, there's no question of social belongingness. If we put two friends in a cell and give them a fruit after 2 weeks,social belongingness will know it's place.
Anyone else watching this for the 2nd... 3rd.. or 4th time :)
here here :)
I don’t think our higher needs can be brought and paid for. Some things are outside capitalism.
When you think you've actually met them, and still see homelessness as a realistic option, and can't differentiate if that is actually because of capitalism or socialism. Hmm.
I think this video is onto something with the 'social media fulfilling our self actualization' idea
Silke Gehtyoutubegarnichtsan Huh. Try again in English
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A lot of people don’t actually reach the top two of the hierarchy and very few reach the top itself.
If they get attached to (or are obsessed by) a particular level and not consider all for a healthy well-being
I never reach the 3rd step, but have sometimes reached the 4th and 5th steps. Without the 3rd step fulfilled, it is impossible to have the top two parts of the pyramid hold any meaning, neither for the bottom two. The 3rd step is the glue that ties the 1-2 & 4-5 steps together. You can have all your physiolgical needs met (not uncommon in modern siciety) and yet it is all corrupted because you don't feel loved. You can get all the attention in the world, and be at one with you talent but with the everlooming 3rd step remaining unfulfilled shall remind you that you are unworthy.
This reminds me so much of my high school psychology class with my favorite teacher ever Mr. Kochel in the year 2009 learning about Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs.. ah the good ol days though they’re not too far in the past. I’m here watching his video on my phone in my truck at work. Fulfilling several of these needs concurrently.
WHAT ABOUT THE SELF-TRANSCENDENT!? Cmon Maslow has so many more ideas, it does not stop at self-actualization!
Ryan Small absolutely. In later years Maslow revised this theory because he realised how incomplete it was. So frustrating that the ‘self-actualisation’ model is so often taught as the complete version. Come on School of life!
@@timyearsley which level in maslow pyramid of needs matter in shaping personality explain why
What other ideas? Would love to look into it
the dislikes are from schools
Sad that for me and many others, the pyramid stopps 2/5 in
i wonder what percentage of people on earth actually have all 5? 50% divorce rates, most common answer of close friends is zero, most people living in poverty, menial jobs, seems like less than 5% to me
Tao Of Millennials there are actual statistics to your question. I’d guess it’s a lot more than 5%. Of course I may be biased.
Have to know this for by BTEC Level 3 Business Studies
Thanks for this!
Have to know this for my A level Business Studies
Thanks for this!
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd yeah but business studies ≠ neoliberalism ??
@@swausgebouwen143 Business Studies for high school just basic before go to business school... If you not going business school best job you get was a temp store manager.
Not to come off as mean or offensive but the fact that you need to know the 7 basic needs of a happy human life for some "high" level college classroom instead of inately says alot
I think that ‘self actualisation’ is inherent in the lower four stages of the pyramid - underpinning the energy in the upward momentum.
In Master level, we already conclusion that any of stage can take priority to a person.
You can stuck on island with no food, no all kind of shit but you can set for self actualization before you dead...
You can care more for thing you want and don't had enough for food...
You can satisfy with what already you had...
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These are valid points as connectedness is definitely not a 'nice to have', but I think the idea is that you'll die from lack of food, shelter and violence, a lot quicker, hence attention to those is more urgent, in the first instance.
Great video as always Alain! Amazing how easy it is for people to misinterpret this model. It's not as simple as it appears. Most will get no where near self actualization, cos it takes a lot of self awareness and really knowing yourself, admitting your faults. Most people are deeply insecure and struggling with self esteem until they are middle age or older when they begin to care less. But that's okay
Maslow was ahead of his time, this is one of the truest concepts in life.
I missed these practical content videos from TSOL. Pretty useful and relevant. Thank you again! Love you TSOL ❤️
This channel is so calming!
Maslow missed out a glaringly obvious need… the need to NOT kill ones self… there must be a need to stay alive which is even more basic than hunger, there is a need that exists that stops suicidal people from killing themselves, like fear curiosity belief, a need that motivates some to eat and drink etc
This is my theory: Maslow hierarchy explains why the higher suicidal rates are in the richest countries. People in poor countries doesn't have time to think in self-actualization or existential crisis, they are still at the bottom trying to survive searching for the basic incomes.
No family nor sense of belonging. Certainly no seif - actualisation. Bleak
Why should I care about a triangle when I am in debt and I'm not even sure if my physiological needs are met tomorrow?
i studied this for 1st year of my graduation,3rd year of graduation, master level plus now every time when I am answering anycompetitive exams.
anyone here watching this because of school?
Meeee
This should’ve been one of the first videos ever made on the channel tbh but hey better late than never
I absolutely do not want any company looking after my spiritual needs.
I get my physiological needs. No wonder I am feeling empty. I am spiritually starved. Welcome to the results of childhood emotional neglect.
I'm stuck on the second stage of the hierarchy and all the advice I'm given is "love yourself first" but I can't truly love myself if I can't get to the fourth stage.
This is a misconception, the stages are not rigid barriers you express and meet multiples at the same time, its just one happens to be promimamt over the others. It is messed up that society says to love yourself first, its amazing to see it work the way maslow suggests and you can definitely feel the legs get kicked out from underneath you if you lose a partner or family member, but youre not stuck at stagr two.
I listen to this video almost every month. Every time I listen to it ...I understand something new that I can apply ...such a masterpiece!
Maslow's Hierarchy is perfectly fine - for high school children. Beyond that, one hopefully begins to recognize more and more that it fails adequately to cater to or to address the actual inter-dimensionality and complexity of human needs and evolutionary progress, individually and otherwise.
I think a 12 year old decently instructed in critical thought ought to be able to see the flaws in the premise of it, even if they lack the life experience to find specific counterexamples. Unfortunately, it would seem that many people do not independently think critically (e.g. current state of US politics).
And they say "He who is without sin, let him throweth the first stone."
And I shall be there to smoketh it.
- Tyrone.
I studied this in college and I believe everyone on the planet is tied to this pyramid.
How power, sex and hunger motivates our thoughts and actions is not hidden from any thoughtful person.
Have you ever thought about this hierarchy not applying to the whole world but only those who live a life in Western hemisphere and whose basic needs happen to be met? Tell that to those who starve.
damn, you're stalking me again, School of Life..
I SKIPPED ALL THE STAGES AND LANDED SELF--ACTUALLIZATION
the question is are you happy tho
So U don't eat or sleep and have no safe place to sleep, no friends and people think you are an appalling human yet you're actualised? I want what your having
Yo...are u alright???
0:43 that roygbiv missed opportunity made my ocd act up
Taking a master training specialist qualification and stumbled on this post. CAREFUL! with this author's summation of the differences between the sections of Maslow's pyramid. Material vs. Spiritual is a vital conflict and transition in ones life. The author adeptly presents the oppositional efforts of the the first two sections of Maslow's pyramid of material survival as a transgressions towards the upper three sections of the Spiritual. The ERROR of presentation then comes when the author then builds their argument upon the upper sections by criticizing the myopic efforts of the material, then re-iterating the negative summation of material pursuits, without applying the same measures to the upper part of the Maslow's Pyramid. To simplify, essentially by focusing only on the material issues i.e. "urged to focus on money and housing..." material pursuits, will result in neglect of upper Spiritual. However, when addressing the upper parts of the Spiritual the author begins their argument that material pursuits neglect the spiritual, then proceeds to contrast the next part to, where the audience expects a contrasting example of negative efforts of sole Spiritual, instead encounters a secondary, but identical argument that material is negative and spiritual is good. Only the negative results are derived by material pursuits, then re-enforced on the second part by over exaggerating the negativity of material pursuits. Sooo, the author's thesis essentially states that the base of the Maslow's Pyramid of material needs is negative, and only the upper spiritual is positive, completely neglecting Maslow's premise that the upper three section of Spiritual needs is supported on the base of non-neglectable base of two sections of material needs.
Please reader take the time to establish if the video has a logical premise, or know you're proclivity to "go down the rabbit hole." Who's the bigger fool? The fool, or those who follow the fool?
The fool is NOT the problem. He doesn't know any better but to be the way he is.
I enjoyed your post
This was surprisingly good. Thank you for producing it and for sharing it with the world. Have a blessed day. Peace and love.🙂♥️
this hierarchy was actually first envisioned by Epicurus
It's important to acknowledge that it's important but flawed.
snowwhitewitch it's flawed, but it's also everything too.
JG Alegria
It's so tragically beautiful that we all depend on one another.
Only a living entity can have goals or can originate them. And it is only a living organism that has the capacity for self-generated, goal-directed action. On the physical level, the functions of all living organisms, from the simplest to the most complex - from the nutritive function in the single cell of an amoeba to the blood circulation in the body of a man - are actions generated by the organism itself and directed to a single goal: the maintenance of the organism’s life.
When applied to physical phenomena, such as the automatic functions of an organism, the term “goal-directed” is not to be taken to mean “purposive” (a concept applicable only to the actions of a consciousness) and is not to imply the existence of any teleological principle operating in insentient nature. I use the term “goal-directed,” in this context, to designate the fact that the automatic functions of living organisms are actions whose nature is such that they result in the preservation of an organism’s life. - Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, p.16
The pyramid has been updated. You may want to update the content of your video with the new structure
How did it change?
This guy sounds like the narrator of a documentary.
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Businesses fulfilling our spiritual needs is what you call "enlightened capitalism"? Sorry, but I don't want a corporation tending to any of my spiritual needs.
I think what they mean is a company that sources things responsibly so satisfying our morality and ideology.
@@brynethfuller6709 Corporations should stay out of morality and ideology. All corporations need to do is provide services/products, make money, and follow laws. That's it. Anything more than that is unnecessary at best and dystopian at worst.
I don't mean corporations, I mean the thrift store that gives their profits to a no kill animal shelter
The pizza place that buys from local farmer's.
The nursery that sells native plants and hosts seminars on how to help bees.
I feel good buying and spending money on these places because they do good things. Things that end up tending to my need to help others.
This allows benefit for me, the seller and the people I don't see. Businesses that have morality, not feigned goodness, but actual morality would be wonderful to see in the world.
Agree. Here is where we find evil cynical corporatism - the disastrous Gillette social justice campaign for example.
It should also called the path to self-owarness.
礼义廉耻 国之四维 仓廪实之礼节 衣食足知荣辱 this concept was already understood by Chinese scholars some 2500 years ago.
Pyramids from Africa. System of symbolic language brought to China
Thank you so much for this, Allain. TSOL always bridges the gap between complex, highly abstract theories and everyday problems in a way that seems pure magic. The answers have always been there, we just couldn’t see it.
It's such a shame that many cannot even get their physiological needs met let alone the other needs. Apparently a good life consists of wearing a blinder in order to disregard most peripheral vision, thus blocking out the suffering and hatred which permeates the bad energy that infuses our psyches.
I wonder if "wearing a blinder" can be considered as a part of protection? Cause it fits in perfectly if you think about it, although it is not a 'material' need
Life not that easy....
This video has confirmed a reoccurring thought I've had about this hierarchy of needs. I'm taking action now
Hello dear! I'm here to find out if you eventually took that action
Belongingness is a weakness that leaves you vulnerable taking away your security and leaving you open to sham religions and weird hobby clubs.
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Perhaps the best 'in a nutshell' expression of Maslowe's heirarchy that I've everr seen. Thank you.
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I think this is a great explanation as to why rich countries have higher rates of suicide.
I literally just came across the word "zeal" and "zealous" in school today in a conversation and then you use it in this video :O
I literally always explain this pyramid to everyone I talk to because it is truly life changing and overlooked. It is so true the only people that can even get to the higher stages are people that have money. its not about having a lot of money itself but just enough to satisfy the basic physiological and safety needs so people can progress higher up into the pyramid.
There's a superior model (and Maslow confirmed it) called Spiral Dynamics
What is meant by a hierarchy of needs?
Maslow's pyramid has since been criticized. Although there's a consensus on the fact that those needs are indeed real, the hierarchy in which they're represented has not been unanimously approved. Someone with low self-esteem might decide to stop eating or even kill himself.
Yes but the difference is the person has the choice between eating or not eating, the problem is low self-esteem not lack of physical needs
@@asarahlime4749 what I meant is, in my example, you could have self-esteem at the base. Someone that doesn't have this might not event try to "climb" the pyramid. That's why this hierarchy is not necessarily true.
@timwins31This is great. 'Self Esteem' imo is made of up how we feel about ourselves (Childhood negative core beleifs) and how we can excute in the world towards getting our needs and desires met right now as an adult. Depression imo, for the most part, is the brain saying 'Hey, we need to stop and figure out this issue/problem'. Its the brains way of getting us to stop and put all resources on figuring out a problem. Its lack of progress like you said towards moving up the chain. Our self esteem only grows by solving problems, overcoming obstacles. Progress=happiness. People need to spend more time gaining clarity, clarity of there issues, wants and desires. Its not 'not having' that thing we are missing but lack of progress towards it or lack of clarity we are moving towards getting that void filled or whetever the challenges are in life in the momment. Think about this...There is defiantly a 'path' and a series of actions and decisions, goals we can make and start taking right now that would start the ball rolling towards getting our needs met, reaching more consistent happiness. We just dont know what to do, life is complex. When people know what they need to do, they don't suffer. They start taking action because they have clarity that taking these actions will improve xyz even in 2% increases a week. Its the overwhelm, lack of clarify that clogs us. Self esteem is only built by taking action and making progress. People with low self esteem need help on overcoming and making progress on there specific challenged right now in there lile
Maslow didn't create the pyramid, his ideas took form into a pyramid in a form of pop psychology. qz.com/work/1588491/maslow-didnt-make-the-pyramid-that-changed-management-history/.
I was learning about this in business management class a few months back and the context was therefore very practical and something to achieve in a physical sense. I think it applies more to a physical sense because all stages contain a set of practical experiences to have in order to finally achieve self actualisation. For example, stage 1 food, water shelter etc. Stage 2 (forgot), stage 3 having good social ties and friends, stage 4 (forgot), stage 5 self-actualization.
I forgot the stages, and I have an exam in a couple weeks, I should get revising!
These talks are Bullshit and for people who have no value for money and good health.....most imp human need is money ....when u have the all problems solve automatically.
Adv sanjay punjabi
I disagree with Maslow’s inclusion of love and belonging, especially when it serves as a barrier to esteem and self-actualization. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not devaluing love, I merely think its inclusion is dogmatic in nature.
Not everyone has the luxury of finding friends or lovers, or having their intimacy needs met. Some people don’t have a place to belong. However, that doesn’t mean they’re unable to have confidence in their own abilities and make their way in life in spite of never being loved.
Not everyone gets food, but people die without being fed. Nobody dies from being unloved unless they choose to. Love does make your life better, but it’s more of a luxury than a need, like an extra strip of bacon on a burger (if you’re into that).
I also disagree with it being a barrier to self-actualization because love and belonging is extrinsic. People will only love you if they see you as worthy of their love. Why should people with no stakes in your path to self-actualization be an obstacle in your pursuit of it?
Because... Why not?
Maslow rocks
🙏 🤝 👍 incredible . . .
one of your best video ever! wonderful job! thank you!
This video is partly bollocks.
To start with one: Maslow never drew a pyramid.
Secondly, Maslow came in the end to the realisation that self-transcendence, not self-actualisation is the ultimate goal.
Thirdly, you can call the theory hardly a static hierarchy, more like a chain of actualisations; people are working continually on all stages.
I've always enjoyed these videos... That is until now... "Decisions Dice" that's a satirical joke, right? Please tell me it's not meant to be serious...
If it is serious, would it change how you feel about other videos on this channel?
@@azalearichardson9113 other videos? No, the creators' intentions; and therefore my opinion of the channel as a whole, and the likelihood of my continued Patronage/ viewership... *YES*
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Hence why I haven't really felt like watching this channel anymore... my good will/ "benefit of the doubt" has been tested - and now I question if they are deserving of my time.
@@Visigoth_ im not going to lie. I kinda feel you on that.
hahaha I know right. I cracked up laughing!!
Thank you. Best to all med/nursing students out there! I can’t wait to work with you.
“According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.”
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Yes, Maslow would agree. He doesn't claim any particular stage negates the others or keeps you solely stuck. We're multifaceted beings, striving for and needing it all - the material and the spiritual realms. We're ever fluid beings. This isn't a stage theory in which people get stuck in one particular stage because of one particular focus at one particular time. Stage theories have for the most part, been debunked. There's no horseshit, excepting your interpretation that's inaccurate and shortsighted. Maybe watch this again.
Great video, but the moving pattern at the end did very ugly things to my brain like you might expect flashing lights to do. I had great difficulty typing this comment and I am feeling very gross
this is so so interesting
The pyramid could cause confusion if it is viewed as a upward path toward self actualization. Take Safety for example. A person may be self actualized when they jump off a cliff with a wing suit on. Their relationship to safety is such that they risk safety to experience self actualization " For Them". They have transcended certain instincts of self preservation to fully experience life as they define it. The Hierarchy is useful in deciding what ones relationship will be to the individual elements of the Hierarchy but it is a two dimensional tool applied to three dimensional beings. Very little of the Hierarchy could be universally applied. We all breath oxygen but not everyone eats meat.
It make to Pyramid so it was easy to explain to beginner...