Human Needs
Everything you own. Everything you love. All our feelings, desires, hopes, purchases and pleasantries... everything we want at its most foundational level is a method of satisfying these fundamental human needs.
Our desire for self-regulated transportation as a tool is a strategy for meeting the needs for work, freedom, adaptability, autonomy, co-operation (getting to friends or coworkers), planning, help (in getting where to need or want to go), sharing, social environment (reaching ways of connecting with people), privacy (public transportation avoidance), spaces of togetherness, equilibrium, subsistence in general can be satisfied by a vehicle when considering they way much of the US is built.
This is a very clear example we're all familiar with here in the US. We emphasize the importance of owning a car frequently and from a very young age.
Love itself... the way we see it... is often vaguely describing needs for intimacy, affection, being seen and heard, being known, acceptance, acknowledgment, belonging etc.
As complex creatures, particularly given a theoretically fulfilling upbringing and education, we are also curious. We have needs for understanding, social collaboration, education, freedom...
Max-Neef's original model for human needs is a comprehensive list of human needs for a cohesive, functional, growth-oriented, thriving society... Marshall Rosenberg's adaptation tries to wholly humanize these recognizable and very real human needs for healthy, emotionally mature and self-conscious, empathetic people; aware of themselves and others around them.
Abraham Maslow's needs hierarchy attempts to simplify and prioritize human needs beginning with food, shelter; subsistence in general while Marshall Rosenberg and many reputable psychologists believe all human needs are interconnected... and combined with our mental and emotional health, are interdependent.
All our feelings relate to either met or unmet needs. We feel happy, joyful, content, generally satisfied when all needs are met and sad, angry, melancholy, afraid, anxious or even confused when are needs are not met. The tears we shed about a loved one's passing result from unmet needs for connection, community, support, acknowledgement etc. because we've lost a person close to us who used to help us with these needs. Our pain results from unsatisfied needs just as our positive feelings and subsequent perspectives result from a fully enriched state of being.
Our desire for self-regulated transportation as a tool is a strategy for meeting the needs for work, freedom, adaptability, autonomy, co-operation (getting to friends or coworkers), planning, help (in getting where to need or want to go), sharing, social environment (reaching ways of connecting with people), privacy (public transportation avoidance), spaces of togetherness, equilibrium, subsistence in general can be satisfied by a vehicle when considering they way much of the US is built.
This is a very clear example we're all familiar with here in the US. We emphasize the importance of owning a car frequently and from a very young age.
Love itself... the way we see it... is often vaguely describing needs for intimacy, affection, being seen and heard, being known, acceptance, acknowledgment, belonging etc.
As complex creatures, particularly given a theoretically fulfilling upbringing and education, we are also curious. We have needs for understanding, social collaboration, education, freedom...
Max-Neef's original model for human needs is a comprehensive list of human needs for a cohesive, functional, growth-oriented, thriving society... Marshall Rosenberg's adaptation tries to wholly humanize these recognizable and very real human needs for healthy, emotionally mature and self-conscious, empathetic people; aware of themselves and others around them.
Abraham Maslow's needs hierarchy attempts to simplify and prioritize human needs beginning with food, shelter; subsistence in general while Marshall Rosenberg and many reputable psychologists believe all human needs are interconnected... and combined with our mental and emotional health, are interdependent.
All our feelings relate to either met or unmet needs. We feel happy, joyful, content, generally satisfied when all needs are met and sad, angry, melancholy, afraid, anxious or even confused when are needs are not met. The tears we shed about a loved one's passing result from unmet needs for connection, community, support, acknowledgement etc. because we've lost a person close to us who used to help us with these needs. Our pain results from unsatisfied needs just as our positive feelings and subsequent perspectives result from a fully enriched state of being.