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Mar 2024
12m 33s

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Scott Smith - Motivation and Coaching
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Your best life is built sequentially, one level at a time. Forget the elevator. Climb all the stairs to the top, and you’ll have lasting success.

In 1954, Abraham Maslow released Motivation and Personality. His Hierarchy of needs theory is all about climbing to the top.

Maslow suggested that to reach your full potential:

1) You must provide for your physiological needs. Food, clothing, shelter, money, and more.  

2) You must feel safe. Personally, emotionally, financially, health and well-being, and against accidents and illness.

3) Socially, you need to feel love and belonging. 

4) Esteem and the desire for acceptance, respect, and value by others is your next step. Self-actualization requires mastery of your previous needs. Maslow said, “What a man can be, he must be.”

5) Self-transcendence removes you from your ego and begins your focus on the greater good.

Your best life is built sequentially, one level at a time.

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