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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/maslow.html
Maslow's The Hierarchy of Needs
1) Physiological
2) Safety/security
3) Belonginess and Love
4) Esteem
5) Cognitive
6) Aesthetic
7) Self-actualization
8) Self-transcendence
What's amazing is that the easiest ones to accomplish are the first few, because they require common primitive skills, and people can easily collaborate to accomplish these first needs (food, safety, etc), but the higher up you go, the needs become more individualized, and guidance on how to fulfill these needs is more difficult to apply, and then you get to the higher levels of self-actualization or self-transcendence, then everyone is pretty much on their own and it's pretty much impossible to fulfill these needs without years and years of internal personal growth that is very specific to each human being. Anyway, I find it interesting. That's why life seems to suck, but it doesn't really, you're just at the hardest parts, and there's no way around it. Maybe that's why Americans seem to feel so unfulfilled and empty (supposedly), b/c there's too much room in the head for the last two, and they're very difficult, so they concentrate on how inadiquate they are in these last two, but it's like they've fastforwarded past the previous needs, where people who live in poor countries mostly need to concentrate on survival and food all the other needs never come up. I think it's interesting how the needs only come in a certain order, like, you can't have them all at the same time, really. It's very evolutionary practical.
Maslow's The Hierarchy of Needs
1) Physiological
2) Safety/security
3) Belonginess and Love
4) Esteem
5) Cognitive
6) Aesthetic
7) Self-actualization
8) Self-transcendence
What's amazing is that the easiest ones to accomplish are the first few, because they require common primitive skills, and people can easily collaborate to accomplish these first needs (food, safety, etc), but the higher up you go, the needs become more individualized, and guidance on how to fulfill these needs is more difficult to apply, and then you get to the higher levels of self-actualization or self-transcendence, then everyone is pretty much on their own and it's pretty much impossible to fulfill these needs without years and years of internal personal growth that is very specific to each human being. Anyway, I find it interesting. That's why life seems to suck, but it doesn't really, you're just at the hardest parts, and there's no way around it. Maybe that's why Americans seem to feel so unfulfilled and empty (supposedly), b/c there's too much room in the head for the last two, and they're very difficult, so they concentrate on how inadiquate they are in these last two, but it's like they've fastforwarded past the previous needs, where people who live in poor countries mostly need to concentrate on survival and food all the other needs never come up. I think it's interesting how the needs only come in a certain order, like, you can't have them all at the same time, really. It's very evolutionary practical.