Maslow is one of the creators of two major areas in psychology: humanistic and transpersonal analysis. He believed that personality theory should take into account not only the behavior of the individual, but also those heights that each individual can reach. Maslow's needs are directly related to the social and individual achievements of each person, such as love, mysticism, creativity and altruism.
Maslow Pyramid
Everyone wants to be healthy and comfortable, but Abraham Maslow believes that a person will be happy only if all his needs are satisfied.
To determine what a person needs, Abraham systematized an analysis of motivation and needs. The Maslow Pyramid is a person’s needs, distributed in order of importance.
The basis of the pyramid is the basic human needs: water, food, sexual satisfaction and other physiological needs. If for some reason a person cannot satisfy physiological needs, then he will not go to the highest level in the hierarchy of the pyramid.
When a person stops thinking about satisfying basic needs, he is able to think about satisfying other needs.
The next step is the need for security. A person must feel protected in order to build and implement plans, dream and work. If the need for security is not satisfied, then the person will ignore everything else, even hunger and thirst, if only to make his life safe.
The theory of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is that when two basic steps are satisfied, a person moves to the third and fourth steps of the pyramid, into the zone of psychological needs.
Social significance
Psychological needs, according to Maslow, become significant when we are full and feel safe. Only then does a person feel the desire to be loved and respected. To meet this need, various communities and systems are created in which a person seeks to achieve respect, to become a significant member of a team or group.
The next step is the need to be recognized. It is very important for a person to respect others and recognize his values for society. If these human needs are not satisfied, then he is looking for all kinds of ways to achieve social significance, sometimes forgetting about basic needs.
Self-realization and self-actualization
When all lower needs (according to Maslow) are satisfied, a person begins to think about his own significance in the world. There is a desire to increase and improve their skills and knowledge in order to become truly useful for the world, family and so on. Self-actualization is a person’s desire to do his own thing for which he was created. If a person has reached the highest level of needs, having satisfied all the previous ones, then he will not feel happy if he does not do what he loves.
We feel that we need something only when needs (according to Maslow) are not satisfied. Sometimes it’s enough to determine which of a person’s needs is not satisfied in order to solve some psychological problems. Therefore, it is worth considering whether all our life needs are taken into account, for example, in a percentage ratio. Maslow cites the following average figures: physiological needs - 85%; the need for security - 70%, the need for love and respect - 50 and 40%, self-actualization - 10%.
If your indicators are below the given data, perhaps in life you need to change something.
