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HERE LIES A MOST UNDERRATED THEORY ON LIFE
WHY DO WE DO THAT THING WE DO?
Abraham Maslow supposed that people all over the world live a life motivated by the same universal needs (nature’s life insurance) even though they find very different strategies to gratify them.
According to Maslow: “Apparently (nature’s life insurance) ends in themselves are far more universal than the roads taken to achieve those ends, for these roads are determined locally in the specific culture. Human beings are more alike than one would think at first.”
He further assumes that these universal needs can be ranked in a hierarchy of needs, and suggest that the basic needs of survival and security first must be gratified before the higher needs, love, esteem, etc. come into play.
He states, “We should never have the desire to compose music or create mathematical systems, or to adorn our homes, or to be well dressed if our stomachs were empty most of the time, or if we were continually dying of thirst, or if we were continually threatened by an always impending catastrophe, or if everyone hated us.”(hmmm, sounds like our current political state)
Maslow suggests that man’s needs never will be fully satisfied. As soon as one need is satisfied a new and higher need will arise. This is the primary urge in man (the self’s…