ArnoldRimmer said:
I think you misinterpret the chart. The importance INcreases from top to bottom - the needs on the higher levels of the pyramide are more or less irrelevant as long as the lower needs are not satisfied. So for example a starving homeless person (who thus has deficits even on the lowest, physiological level) will not care about creatitivy etc., for he has much deeper and more important problems. So the chart actually proves just how important health and body are. |
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(espiecally funny considering your heritage.)
B) The funny thing is 95% of people are taught Maslow wrong anyway. Most people are taught it's a set in stone "you need the bottom before the top". Which wasn't actually maslows intent, and he actually did say you COULD self actualize without those things.
That and people think way more people are self actualizing then really are. For Maslow it being more of a theoretical state, that you are only in for brief periods of time, giving examples of a few people who were what he saw as "closest."
(One of my former proffessors was a direct pupil of Maslow.)