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@xzonia1

5 жыл бұрын

I think I might move off the first rung soon and onto the second level (security). :P

@AHarper94

5 жыл бұрын

I feel that I have achieved/realised all of these layers. However balancing them out is a life long process

@danielslegend5836

5 жыл бұрын

The esteem respect shit is absolutely euphemistic stupid nonsense. What you need is a hard slap in the face exactly at stage four.

@drswetaruparel

5 жыл бұрын

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!

@oilonpaper

5 жыл бұрын

My base is too wide. I'm trying to correct that. 🙂

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.

@CaptainRumi

3 жыл бұрын

I wish you nothing but the best for your journey!

@JCA51698

3 жыл бұрын

IKR about parents providing only the basics. They can’t imagine anything other than what they were taught and modeled by their own parents.

@MrCastoravenue

3 жыл бұрын

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.....

@JosephKulik2016

3 жыл бұрын

Dear MJ Burgess: It is rare to see such an intelligent comment on KZread 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

@mosub6546

3 жыл бұрын

MJ, this is a beautiful reply.

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.

@shmii7724

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@StephanieFink515

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@vidividivicious

5 жыл бұрын

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

@kinseydesignsbrands

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said!

@Lektro4464

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.*

@FuriousBuddha

5 жыл бұрын

-osho

@abhilashagarwal7935

5 жыл бұрын

@@FuriousBuddha 🤣

@MrHlcg1962

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's very hard to have ideals on an empty stomach.

@archmad

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrHlcg1962 totally disagree. many philosophers, artists, composers, writers, etc made inspiration from hardships in life.

@MrHlcg1962

5 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@aveclasse17

5 жыл бұрын

yes, it's sad when religion (the spiritual) is used to justify utter neglect, abuse, and poverty...so sooo damaging

@frankm.2850

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@jueshihuanggua3162

5 жыл бұрын

@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

@noice2606

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@jueshihuanggua3162

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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"

@somerandomvertebrate9262

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

@@somerandomvertebrate9262 nope.

@somerandomvertebrate9262

5 жыл бұрын

@@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?

@crowstakingoff

5 жыл бұрын

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

@letsplaybaby8098

4 жыл бұрын

@@somerandomvertebrate9262 nope

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).

@nazareneoftheway3936

Жыл бұрын

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

@jkstubbington

11 ай бұрын

Great insight. Thank you.

@saritshull3909

11 ай бұрын

It’s also possible he picked that up from his Jewish education and his relationship with his mother

"The School of Life" is Maslow's dream come true ;-)

@Justin.Martyr

5 жыл бұрын

@The Confusing Riddle *Wut da Fuk, WUT you Ignorant ChiLd MoLester!!!?????*

@mikeidk5548

2 жыл бұрын

ratio

You guys should start a podcast.

@davidcarvalho2803

5 жыл бұрын

alex gonzales up

@Ravenlion13

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd listen

@JoVicttor49

5 жыл бұрын

YES

@weltschmertzz

5 жыл бұрын

This is uncanny. I was just thinking i want to listen to this while doing something else lol

@NenaLavonne

5 жыл бұрын

alex gonzales yes!

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 :)

@Bc232klm

5 жыл бұрын

That's not about Maslow, that's just a state of flow and being mindful of your existence. It's not "self actualization"

@reynal_omnicide9217

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bc232klm Exactly what I thought. I'm glad I won't be the one perceived as an asshole for saying it

@campkira

5 жыл бұрын

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...

@Weareyoungsorry

5 жыл бұрын

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

@goofyahhh254

5 жыл бұрын

@@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!

"Man does not live by bread alone."

@ofyhwh-0076

4 жыл бұрын

Vir Quisque Vir Is that a quote from the Bible

@ernestoglez6725

4 жыл бұрын

Water, bread and sex

@anshumanbiswal2225

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@OP-xi1hv

4 жыл бұрын

he gotta fuck too.

@ciaran6309

4 жыл бұрын

Yes needs chocolate too. A bit of alcohol maybe also..

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.

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.

@falsepanda2981

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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.

@InternetPirate7

Жыл бұрын

Well said

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

@mrssomeone2143

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

@jkstubbington

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

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.

@charliefreak1668

2 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@NoFlu

Жыл бұрын

@@charliefreak1668 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)

@dontcallthemliberals3316

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

I missed these practical content videos from TSOL. Pretty useful and relevant. Thank you again! Love you TSOL ❤️

well sht, I just got an ad before this video about procrastination and how it's linked to low self-esteem KZread *knows* me

@halfmanhalfamazing9812

5 жыл бұрын

Me too 😂🤣

@colinogorman8279

3 жыл бұрын

😊

*This explained Maslow 's hierarchy of needs better than my college professors when I was in college 😂*

@cheshireerlinberts5806

4 жыл бұрын

Kumar's Gaming man so true😂😂

@reenthronedprof

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@reenthronedprof

4 жыл бұрын

@αlιуαн yeah. I agree and I do give honest evaluation as well. ☺

@osofaze8898

4 жыл бұрын

Kumar's Gaming & alll in just 6mins 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ goes to show what we’re paying for ain’t worth it🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@osofaze8898

4 жыл бұрын

Reenthroned Prof people pay money to go college... the should be competent enough to be able to articulate a theory..cmon man 👀👀🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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.

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!

I learned about Maslow in undergrad and even more in graduate school. Maslow helped me to see things differently. It helps me to understand myself, others, and to be a more thoughtful educator and leader. Great video!

This was surprisingly good. Thank you for producing it and for sharing it with the world. Have a blessed day. Peace and love.🙂♥️

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

Thank you. Best to all med/nursing students out there! I can’t wait to work with you.

Very fine piece -- I'm learning a lot about Abraham Maslow in this period of my life after emerging from a long period of troubles. My life right now also relates to the only problem in this vid. I am 62, and that was the age Maslow lived to. (He died unexpectedly of a heart attack.) You say "Toward the end of his long life" Maslow called for businesses to emphasize meeting people's higher needs. If he lived a long life, then I'm about done. Of course, his point was achieving self-actualizing, rather than longevity, is the best measure. And I'm far from done at that. Maslow's ideas are helping me and I feel much gratitude toward him. And I just stumbled on your channel and I like your way of explaining things!

*So i had a POM exam today and i wish video was uploaded yesterday* 😂 could've been helpful!!

We were taught about Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a part of principles of management and marketing which focused on it being used as a tool used to better understand motivation and how companies should better treat their employees. But it also can be used to great effect on a personal level cause it helps one understand how one can achieve balance in life. A brilliant idea indeed and I loved the use of the words "enlightened capitalism".

Thank you so much for this. Had a lecture series in relation to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and this video simplified it even better!

Glad you did this one! I know Alain has mentioned Maslow quite a few times over the years. It's good to have an overview.

*What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself* *I'm aware that my passion is making animated videos*

@lindaleelaw5277

5 жыл бұрын

An awareness.

@envadeh

5 жыл бұрын

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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5 жыл бұрын

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@maryanndeweerd2570

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@maryanndeweerd2570

4 жыл бұрын

@@Justin.Martyr are you still there? What happened

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.

The visuals in these videos are outstanding. Obviously the scripts, messages, and narration also, but some of the visuals in this video really stood out to me as great. This is one of the best and most important channels on youtube.

Definitely one of the most fascinating and creative educational videos on KZread! Very well presented!

Perhaps the best 'in a nutshell' expression of Maslowe's heirarchy that I've everr seen. Thank you.

@mikeidk5548

2 жыл бұрын

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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.

@aidanhodgescience7634

4 жыл бұрын

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 went looking for a basic explainer on the hierarchy for something I was writing, and I found another animated one, but I also stopped to watch this, and I really appreciate its more lateral and in-depth look at the concept. Well done.

Maslow was ahead of his time, this is one of the truest concepts in life.

This channel is so calming!

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!

What an amazingly detailed breakdown in such a condensed time frame. This is great, thanks!

I really have to thank "The School of Life" for those amazing videos. I would never have the opportunity of getting in touch with such concepts where I live.

This was discussed while I was in school for Marketing/International Business.

@Rooted_Locs

5 жыл бұрын

Steph anis that's quite scary that the pyramid is being used as a tool in marketing

@listenup987

5 жыл бұрын

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd Didn't end up doing anything with the degree, waste of time for the most part besides studying Ethics/Economics.

@listenup987

5 жыл бұрын

@@Rooted_Locs I didn't think of it being scary really, but there were some questionable things being taught in Ethics.

@lcoopcooperl

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Also taught in my CED class under the Marketing section.

@campkira

5 жыл бұрын

If they just discussed about it.... It not a good school... Any real professional would tell you that. It just one of basic diagram.. ...

one of your best video ever! wonderful job! thank you!

Thanks for sharing. I was not able to find a version of Maslow's Hierarchy that I liked until just now.

I studied only a small view of Maslow's work, when studying at a part time University course... But it left me thinking that he had covered the best, and most succinct example of human 'normality'......(i.e...What is normal.??) By covering all the bases, of human 'NEEDS'. It's not very complicated when you hear, and see, this brilliant and quick 'overview' of his theories. BRIILLIANT! ..... Basic logic in process!! Many thanks.

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I think that ‘self actualisation’ is inherent in the lower four stages of the pyramid - underpinning the energy in the upward momentum.

@campkira

5 жыл бұрын

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...

@mikeidk5548

2 жыл бұрын

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@d-rex7043

2 жыл бұрын

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.

This is a very elegant and clear explanation of Maslow's Heirachy delivered in a modern media format...well done I enjoyed it

I also like how Tony Robbins eloquently articulates in his style. The six human needs very very well presented and easy to digest an extremely entertaining. He really makes learning fun

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

This is the most well animated School of Life video I've seen so far! Beautifully done!

Such a beautiful summary of an incredibly important hierarchy!

Excellent timing - I'm giving a lecture on this today!

It's included in my psychiatry class,I think it's almost taught everywhere

@chaosdweller

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@Sanjeevi7

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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. ;^)

@SleeplessinOC

2 жыл бұрын

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 .

@koffz-nl2118

Жыл бұрын

I am perplexed as to why your comment only has 12 likes(now 13).

@AlexandrePellaes

Жыл бұрын

@@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).

@capiquedotcom

6 ай бұрын

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.

Wonderful job on the video. I’ll have to check out more.

I studied his work in school, and I completely agree with his Hiearchy Of Needs theory. Maslow was a genius.

This video has confirmed a reoccurring thought I've had about this hierarchy of needs. I'm taking action now

@HealthiaMedica

2 жыл бұрын

Hello dear! I'm here to find out if you eventually took that action

My boyfriend broke up with me. He citied Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as his reason.

@JW-uq9yt

3 жыл бұрын

It is either a solid reason or a complete crap made by theory excuses 😑

@mishael8631

3 жыл бұрын

@@JW-uq9yt man probably said he wasn’t ready for love

@miguelzorro7631

3 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelbrian455

3 жыл бұрын

Where was he at in his life? Did he have a job to cover his basic needs?

As applicable today as it's always been.all psyche traumas and PDs emmanate from not having first two levels satisfied. Healing from traumas which result in PDs ...and with two Bpders in my life.. I am worked patiently with showing love and kindness, and validating and providing for their needs in the first two spheres, and seen vast improvements.

I needed this video. Thank you for making it!

A lot of people don’t actually reach the top two of the hierarchy and very few reach the top itself.

@yemisiaderuku2902

3 жыл бұрын

If they get attached to (or are obsessed by) a particular level and not consider all for a healthy well-being

@bosspoke

2 жыл бұрын

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.

How power, sex and hunger motivates our thoughts and actions is not hidden from any thoughtful person.

Superbly simple and accurate analysis of the human condition!

Highest level of consciousness isn't self actualization, it's transcendence - transcending selfish needs and moving into service to humanity = ONENESS ❤

Came here to comment on how obvious the title was. Found a wonderful explanation of the principle which included advanced ideas that made me think. Well done.

I loved this video. It was simple and direct much more than your “usual” videos. Please do more regarding this topic -or basic psychology in general-.

Thank you for making and sharing this videos

Lovely, very true. School of life really brings the train of through to a new speed

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.

@falsepanda2981

2 жыл бұрын

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).

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.

It's very very interesting, how this delicate balance can be upset with the smallest nuances. Im a professor that teaches this to my students.

A Maslow wrote a wonderful little book called "Religions, Values and Peak Experiences'. Definitely worth the read!!

Have to know this for by BTEC Level 3 Business Studies Thanks for this!

@PapaSeed

5 жыл бұрын

Have to know this for my A level Business Studies Thanks for this!

@swausgebouwen143

5 жыл бұрын

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd yeah but business studies ≠ neoliberalism ??

@campkira

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@mayowa4321

5 жыл бұрын

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

This was taught to us last year in Economics class. I found the topic interesting since then, thanks for noticing the triangle

Best predictor and explanation of human behavior.

Dude that was the best explanation I’ve ever heard about Maslow and I’m a Maslow person 🇨🇦👍💛

Sometimes I wish I were a dolphin, would have seen the ocean and died a peaceful death without thinking about 'human stuff'

@leebennett4117

5 жыл бұрын

Most People would rather Die than think. How do you know Dolphins don't Struggle thinking about Dolphin Stuff????

@thereisnosanctuary6184

4 жыл бұрын

You were a dolphin. This is your next level.

@leebennett4117

4 жыл бұрын

@@thereisnosanctuary6184 so long and thanks for all the Fish

@anshumanbiswal2225

4 жыл бұрын

You are still a dolphin....😂😂😂

@natashachenkov1850

4 жыл бұрын

Until you suffocate in a Tuna net.

Fact: You cannot go into self-actualization/successful self without fulfilling first the physiological/basic needs.

@clariceism

3 жыл бұрын

the Buddha enters the chat

@christopherkeeping5564

3 жыл бұрын

I think that is perhaps something I have learned today.

@cayotegirl7291

3 жыл бұрын

Nope.... its quiet the opposite for me!

@mikeidk5548

2 жыл бұрын

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thank you for school of life, love all info and videos, helps self improvement

Vast touchingly nebulous and yet hugely apt concept !!

And they say "He who is without sin, let him throweth the first stone." And I shall be there to smoketh it. - Tyrone.

When I am going to be a parent I will ensure that my kid watches the school of Life to get the grasp of what really matters!

I learned this in psychology but had not saw it that way. Now I understand the importance behind it.

I absolutely do not want any company looking after my spiritual needs.

WHAT ABOUT THE SELF-TRANSCENDENT!? Cmon Maslow has so many more ideas, it does not stop at self-actualization!

@timyearsley

5 жыл бұрын

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!

@bouafiahadil424

3 жыл бұрын

@@timyearsley which level in maslow pyramid of needs matter in shaping personality explain why

@vvh923

3 жыл бұрын

What other ideas? Would love to look into it

Thank you, I was glad to see a video on this direction. Many of your last submissions had a too heavy focus on relationships and a weird "self-help" touch to them.

@poposisa

5 жыл бұрын

everg86 people need help man

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?

@1210Sisters0213

Жыл бұрын

The fool is NOT the problem. He doesn't know any better but to be the way he is.

@1210Sisters0213

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed your post

An absolute masterpiece. Thank you.

I get my physiological needs. No wonder I am feeling empty. I am spiritually starved. Welcome to the results of childhood emotional neglect.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and how it can be applied to developing nations over time. Not exactly profound since countries are made of people so it's just the hierarchy at a larger scale, but it's still a fun way to pass the time. Also that inverted pyramid is the concept of decadence in picture form. Schools really should be using that in history classes if they haven't already. Great way to bridge the two subjects a little.

Perfect explanation. Thank you

so well explained : in words, text & the animated explanation🤩🙌👏👏👏God bless !!

One of my favorite concepts in psychology! Was just talking about this with friends yesterday! It’s so fascinating and applicable to our everyday lives. Thanks for the video highlighting the concept :)

@Bc232klm

5 жыл бұрын

The concept of ordering things? His choice on how to do so doesn't really mean anything.

@NowYouSimi

5 жыл бұрын

C0110 You’re right that it is a way to order the levels of needs, so yes it’s essentially a ranking. I also see it as a way to better understand the motivations of people to an extent, so in a way I try to use it as a concept. For example, if we don’t have our biological needs covered such as clean water, food, or shelter, then we’re not really pursuing or worrying about the question of our existence. Rather we would want to fulfill our needs in the lower levels first to even survive before considering the higher levels. Or I like to think about how we’re all born into a life where the opportunities or lack of that we may have based on i.e. SES affect what our priority in life might be for some time. So I agree with you it’s definitely a ranking, but I just personally utilize it into a conceptual idea when applying it to certain situations. Hope that made sense! Thanks :)

@campkira

5 жыл бұрын

Maslow is not psychology...

this is so so interesting

A pretty good theory. Gives a general understanding of what humans desire. In today's time, I believe most people get so caught up in self esteem needs and forget that their are others out their who are lucky to even meet physiological and safety needs from day to day. Not to say self-esteem needs isnt relevant, rather, be appreciative of securing the survival needs.