Posted by SLS on February 21, 2009, at 14:14:27
In reply to Re: Self-Actualization - Maslow's hierarchy of nee » SLS, posted by raisinb on February 21, 2009, at 13:57:21
> I like Maslow's hierarchy. I disagree a bit about whether one *must* get each level met before experiencing or filling other levels. For me, it seems like the top three emerge and get fulfilled in alternating ways, and that I can use one of them to compensate somewhat when the others aren't being met.
The beauty of the paradigm is that people occupy multiple levels at the same time. There is no real "graduation" from one level to the next. It is just that in order for one to ponder the butterfly effect and its possible consequences on the weather in Tahiti, one must first have enough to eat so as to be alive in order to have such thoughts in the first place.
Once you expend the time and energy to take care of the survival needs, then your mind and body are free to pursue those human needs that appear at the next level up, and so on.
I'm not sure that I'm explaining this right.
- Scott
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