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Luxury lifestyle brands and social media companies hit esteem and self-actualization needs pretty well, however, they give only but shadows of those needs - a false sense of self-esteem and self-actualization.

I first learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when I went to grad school to study business and finance. It changed my life because it changed the way I SAW my life. My parents are survivors. They felt as long as I had the basics (food, clothing, shelter, health insurance) everything is fine. When it was time for me to go out into the "real world" they said, find a job that provides a retirement plan, health insurance and enough money to buy a house and a car. I wanted to be a filmmaker. Nope - they said filmmaking is for rich, white men - not for a poor, black woman. I asked, once you have the basics covered, what is the point? What is the reason to keep living, using up the Earth's natural resources (like water), and not committing suicide? Seriously. There is a difference between surviving and living a fulfilling life. Before grad school, I knew I wanted to live, not just survive. I was once angry with my parents, but I forgave them because I realized only a self-actualized person can raise and support a self-actualized child. That's why it took me until my late 20s going to grad school to learn about this pyramid. Money makes the world go around so you need it to cover the basics (rent, food, etc). I always understood that. But everyone's ultimate goal should be financial freedom and self-actualization - no matter how long it takes to get there.

*It's hard to care about virtue and humility when a person is hungry in every aspect of life.*

Sad thing is: Most people try to educate children by denying them the fulfillment of their needs. This results in humans who are very uncertain about the love they deserve and the amount of love they really own. I really hope we somehow learn to bypass this strategy of conditioning and enable our children to live to their full potential.

One problem with the hierarchy, researchers found, is that people often seek these needs in a different order that Maslow proposes (Maslow would say higher needs do not appear until lower needs are met). Maslow also wrote a book called,"Towards a Psychology of Being," which serves as a sequel to the hierarchy of needs: It defines what self-actualization actually is. One thing Maslow says in the book, is that many psychological disorders appear when the hierarchy isn't met, and that the disorder disappears once certain needs are met (He says a large body of research shows this). One more interesting thing Maslow says, which was probably inspired by Taoism. He says seeing people as need-fulfillers can make us hostile to others when we see they are not fulfilling our needs. Behavior people have unrelated to our needs might anger or annoy us. We also only focus-like tunnel vision-on what people do to satisfy our needs, and not see the other person holistically. In contrast, Self-Actualized people see other people as they are, holistically, and do not feel they "need" the other person, yet can still love/admire/respect them for their whole person. Maslow adds more to the difference between need-deficient love and Self-Actualized love. Edit: Self-Actualized people tend to feel both need-deficient love and Self-Actualized love, (Maslow says both kinds of love are needed for a good social relationship).

During Maslow's time, his country was still a developing one and the people could not afford to move up their needs. " To be able to worry about meaning of life, is truly a luxury"

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs explains the best day of my life. Walking down a quiet street one day, I had a most profound 'stop and smell the roses' experience. Suddenly the natural world appeared so much more beautiful then ever before, and an overwhelming appreciation for the miracle of life followed. I was taught Maslow's Hierarchy in high school and related my experience to having reached self-actualisation. Wishing that everyone has the opportunity to experience this in their lifetime, peace and love to all :)

"The School of Life" is Maslow's dream come true ;-)

"Man does not live by bread alone."

You guys should start a podcast.

I always thought of the chart as a road rather than a triangle. When basic survival is right in front of you, self actualization always seems far away. Also if you are distracted into looking down at the ground in front of you, you are no longer looking down the road to where you should be headed

I first learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs when I read about how to write character motivations. I learned that if one of our human needs goes missing, then we would get driven to do anything to get that human need back. This theory would not only help in helping writers to create characters, but also make them relatable and likable.

This reminds me so much of my high school psychology class with my favorite teacher ever Mr. Kochel in the year 2009 learning about Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs.. ah the good ol days though they’re not too far in the past. I’m here watching his video on my phone in my truck at work. Fulfilling several of these needs concurrently.

Meeting our needs can help with anxiety. I would get anxiety when my need for safety wasn't met. And when I took small breaks and deep breaths it got better. Also, self respect is honoring our needs.

Maslow's Hierarchy is good for figuring out what to do next. You may wish for self-actualization, as that is the ideal, but you can't get there until your other needs are met. If you feel stuck it helps to know where exactly on the pyramid you're stuck.

FULL TRANSCRIPT: One of the most legendary ideas in the history of psychology Is located in an unassuming triangle Divided into 5 sections referred to universally simply as ‘Maslow's pyramid of needs’. This profoundly influential pyramid first saw the world in an academic Journal in the United States in 1943 where it was crudely drawn in black and white and surrounded by dense and jargon-rich text. It has since become a mainstay of psychological analyses, business presentations and TED talks - and grown ever more colourful and emphatic in the process. The pyramid was the work of 35-year-old Jewish psychologist Of Russian origins called Abraham Maslow, who had been looking, since the start of his professional career for nothing less than the meaning of life. No longer part of the Close-knit orthodox family of his youth, Maslow wanted to find out what could make life purposeful for people (himself included) in modern-day America a country where the pursuit of money And fame seemed to have eclipsed anymore interior or authentic aspirations. He saw Psychology as the discipline that would enable him to answer the yearnings and questions that people had once taken to religion. He suddenly saw that human beings could be said to have essentially five different kinds of need: on the one hand, the psychological or what one could term, without any mysticism being meant by the word, the spiritual and on the other, the material. For Maslow, we all start with a set of utterly non-negotiable and basic physiological needs, for food, water, warmth and rest. In addition, we have urgent safety needs for bodily security and protection from attack. But then we start to enter the spiritual domain. We need belongingness and love. We need friends and lovers; we need esteem and respect. And Lastly, and most grandly, we are driven by what Maslow called - in a now legendary term - an urge for self-actualization: a vast touchingly nebulous, and yet hugely apt concept involving what Maslow described as ‘living according to one's full potential’ and ‘becoming who we really are’. Part of the reason why the description of these needs, laid out in pyramid form has, proved so persuasive is their capacity to capture, with elemental simplicity, a profound structural truth about human existence. Maslow was putting his finger, with unusual deftness and precision, on a set of answers to very large questions that tend to confuse and perplex us viciously, particularly when we are young, namely: What are we really after? What do we long for? And how do we arrange our priorities and give and give due regard for the different and competing claims we have on our attention? Maslow was reminding us with artistic concision of the shape of an ideal well-lived life, proposing at once that we cannot live by our spiritual callings alone, but also that it cannot be right to remain focused only on the material either. We need, to be whole, both the material and the spiritual realms to be attended to, the base lending support while the summit offers upward direction and definition. Maslow was rebutting calls from two kinds of zealots: firstly, over-ardent spiritual types who might urge us to forget entirely about money, housing, a good insurance policy and enough to pay for lunch. But he was also fighting against extreme hard-nosed pragmatists who might imply that life was simply a bread process of putting food on the table and going to the office. Both camps had - for Maslow - misunderstood the complexity of the human animal. Unlike other creatures, we truly are multifaceted, called at once to unfurl our soul according to its inner destiny - and to make sure we'll be able to pay the bills at the end of the month. Operating at the heyday of American capitalism, Maslow was interestingly ambivalent about business. He was awed by the material resources of large corporations around him but at the same time he lamented that almost all their economic activity was - unfairly and bizarrely - focused on honouring customers’ needs at the bottom of his pyramid. America’s largest companies were helping people to have a roof over their heads, feeding them, moving them around and ensuring they could talk to each other long-distance. But they seemed utterly uninterested in trying to fulfil the essential spiritual appetites defined on the higher slopes of his pyramid. Towards the end of his long life, Maslow expressed a hope that businesses could in time learn to make more of their profits from addressing not only our basic needs but also - and as importantly - our higher spiritual and psychological ones as well. That would be truly enlightened capitalism. In the personal sphere, Maslow's pyramid remains a hugely useful object to turn to whenever we're trying to assess the direction of our lives. Often, as we reflect upon it, we start to notice that we really haven't arranged and balanced our needs as wisely and elegantly as we might. Some lives have gotten implausible wide base: all the energy seems directed towards material accumulation. At the same time, there are lives with an opposite problem, where we have not paid due heed to our need to look after our fragile and vulnerable bodies. Maslow's beautifully simple visual cue is, above anything else, a portrait of a life lived in harmony with the complexities of our nature. We should, at our less frantic moments, use it to reflect with newfound focus on what it is we might do next.

Maslow’s theory is my most favourite in deed. I wish everyone must chew it and would understand it. I can speak hours to discuss it correlating to every socio-economic tier.

I missed these practical content videos from TSOL. Pretty useful and relevant. Thank you again! Love you TSOL ❤️

Guys remember this is an idea to get you thinking and do not blindly accept ideas of how your life is supposed to be. This is a fantastic realization by Maslow and he makes great points. I have been studying self development for 6 years, and this is congruent.

This was surprisingly good. Thank you for producing it and for sharing it with the world. Have a blessed day. Peace and love.🙂♥️

well sht, I just got an ad before this video about procrastination and how it's linked to low self-esteem KZfaq *knows* me

I listen to this video almost every month. Every time I listen to it ...I understand something new that I can apply ...such a masterpiece!

*This explained Maslow 's hierarchy of needs better than my college professors when I was in college 😂*

Great video as always Alain! Amazing how easy it is for people to misinterpret this model. It's not as simple as it appears. Most will get no where near self actualization, cos it takes a lot of self awareness and really knowing yourself, admitting your faults. Most people are deeply insecure and struggling with self esteem until they are middle age or older when they begin to care less. But that's okay

Thank you so much for this, Allain. TSOL always bridges the gap between complex, highly abstract theories and everyday problems in a way that seems pure magic. The answers have always been there, we just couldn’t see it.

I learned about Maslow in undergrad and even more in graduate school. Maslow helped me to see things differently. It helps me to understand myself, others, and to be a more thoughtful educator and leader. Great video!

Glad you did this one! I know Alain has mentioned Maslow quite a few times over the years. It's good to have an overview.

Maslow was ahead of his time, this is one of the truest concepts in life.

*So i had a POM exam today and i wish video was uploaded yesterday* 😂 could've been helpful!!

*What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself* *I'm aware that my passion is making animated videos*

Thank you so much for this. Had a lecture series in relation to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and this video simplified it even better!

This channel is so calming!

We were taught about Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a part of principles of management and marketing which focused on it being used as a tool used to better understand motivation and how companies should better treat their employees. But it also can be used to great effect on a personal level cause it helps one understand how one can achieve balance in life. A brilliant idea indeed and I loved the use of the words "enlightened capitalism".

Very fine piece -- I'm learning a lot about Abraham Maslow in this period of my life after emerging from a long period of troubles. My life right now also relates to the only problem in this vid. I am 62, and that was the age Maslow lived to. (He died unexpectedly of a heart attack.) You say "Toward the end of his long life" Maslow called for businesses to emphasize meeting people's higher needs. If he lived a long life, then I'm about done. Of course, his point was achieving self-actualizing, rather than longevity, is the best measure. And I'm far from done at that. Maslow's ideas are helping me and I feel much gratitude toward him. And I just stumbled on your channel and I like your way of explaining things!

Perhaps the best 'in a nutshell' expression of Maslowe's heirarchy that I've everr seen. Thank you.

i studied this for 1st year of my graduation,3rd year of graduation, master level plus now every time when I am answering anycompetitive exams.

I literally just came across the word "zeal" and "zealous" in school today in a conversation and then you use it in this video :O

What an amazingly detailed breakdown in such a condensed time frame. This is great, thanks!

I really have to thank "The School of Life" for those amazing videos. I would never have the opportunity of getting in touch with such concepts where I live.

one of your best video ever! wonderful job! thank you!

I'm stuck on the second stage of the hierarchy and all the advice I'm given is "love yourself first" but I can't truly love myself if I can't get to the fourth stage.

Thanks for sharing. I was not able to find a version of Maslow's Hierarchy that I liked until just now.

Definitely one of the most fascinating and creative educational videos on KZfaq! Very well presented!

I was learning about this in business management class a few months back and the context was therefore very practical and something to achieve in a physical sense. I think it applies more to a physical sense because all stages contain a set of practical experiences to have in order to finally achieve self actualisation. For example, stage 1 food, water shelter etc. Stage 2 (forgot), stage 3 having good social ties and friends, stage 4 (forgot), stage 5 self-actualization. I forgot the stages, and I have an exam in a couple weeks, I should get revising!

This was discussed while I was in school for Marketing/International Business.

Excellent timing - I'm giving a lecture on this today!

I went looking for a basic explainer on the hierarchy for something I was writing, and I found another animated one, but I also stopped to watch this, and I really appreciate its more lateral and in-depth look at the concept. Well done.

This video has confirmed a reoccurring thought I've had about this hierarchy of needs. I'm taking action now

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The visuals in these videos are outstanding. Obviously the scripts, messages, and narration also, but some of the visuals in this video really stood out to me as great. This is one of the best and most important channels on youtube.

Such a beautiful summary of an incredibly important hierarchy!

It's included in my psychiatry class,I think it's almost taught everywhere

I literally always explain this pyramid to everyone I talk to because it is truly life changing and overlooked. It is so true the only people that can even get to the higher stages are people that have money. its not about having a lot of money itself but just enough to satisfy the basic physiological and safety needs so people can progress higher up into the pyramid.

I studied only a small view of Maslow's work, when studying at a part time University course... But it left me thinking that he had covered the best, and most succinct example of human 'normality'......(i.e...What is normal.??) By covering all the bases, of human 'NEEDS'. It's not very complicated when you hear, and see, this brilliant and quick 'overview' of his theories. BRIILLIANT! ..... Basic logic in process!! Many thanks.

This is a very elegant and clear explanation of Maslow's Heirachy delivered in a modern media format...well done I enjoyed it

This is the most well animated School of Life video I've seen so far! Beautifully done!

Have to know this for by BTEC Level 3 Business Studies Thanks for this!

Wonderful job on the video. I’ll have to check out more.

Dude that was the best explanation I’ve ever heard about Maslow and I’m a Maslow person 🇨🇦👍💛

A lot of people don’t actually reach the top two of the hierarchy and very few reach the top itself.

I think that ‘self actualisation’ is inherent in the lower four stages of the pyramid - underpinning the energy in the upward momentum.

Lovely, very true. School of life really brings the train of through to a new speed

As applicable today as it's always been.all psyche traumas and PDs emmanate from not having first two levels satisfied. Healing from traumas which result in PDs ...and with two Bpders in my life.. I am worked patiently with showing love and kindness, and validating and providing for their needs in the first two spheres, and seen vast improvements.

I loved this video. It was simple and direct much more than your “usual” videos. Please do more regarding this topic -or basic psychology in general-.

Sometimes I wish I were a dolphin, would have seen the ocean and died a peaceful death without thinking about 'human stuff'

I needed this video. Thank you for making it!

I also like how Tony Robbins eloquently articulates in his style. The six human needs very very well presented and easy to digest an extremely entertaining. He really makes learning fun

Maslow's Hierarchy is perfectly fine - for high school children. Beyond that, one hopefully begins to recognize more and more that it fails adequately to cater to or to address the actual inter-dimensionality and complexity of human needs and evolutionary progress, individually and otherwise.

Came here to comment on how obvious the title was. Found a wonderful explanation of the principle which included advanced ideas that made me think. Well done.

I studied his work in school, and I completely agree with his Hiearchy Of Needs theory. Maslow was a genius.

Thank you. Best to all med/nursing students out there! I can’t wait to work with you.

My boyfriend broke up with me. He citied Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as his reason.

This was taught to us last year in Economics class. I found the topic interesting since then, thanks for noticing the triangle

I love the video and the animations! Great great job!

Superbly simple and accurate analysis of the human condition!

And they say "He who is without sin, let him throweth the first stone." And I shall be there to smoketh it. - Tyrone.

this is so so interesting

It's very very interesting, how this delicate balance can be upset with the smallest nuances. Im a professor that teaches this to my students.

It’s the basics that need to be completed, mindset, confidence, habits, and socialization. Complete ownership in all of these subjects, life is perfect already, but of course a lot of people don’t have these completed. Self-questioning is helpful in finding answers, especially for fear of truth.

This should’ve been one of the first videos ever made on the channel tbh but hey better late than never

The video is incredibly beautiful and well done. Congrats for that! I live in Brazil and I am a researcher in the field of Organizational Psychology, with a special interest in new management systems. Maslow's theory has been the based of my Master Degree. In general, the concepts presented in the video are ok. However, there is an essential misreading of Maslow's theory, that has been replicated in the video. Abraham Maslow has NEVER represented his "Theory of Hierarchy of Needs" into a triangle or pyramid. The information that pyramid has been seen in the 1943 paper is not accurate. In fact, this is the date of Maslow's article "A Theory of Human Motivation" publication. The pyramid only has been "created" or "released" in papers from other authors in the early 60's. The Pyramid of Maslow has not been created by Maslow - that is a shocker. Representing a complex and rich theory such as Maslow's Hierachy of Needs into a pyramid has been a big disservice to the management field. The translation of the theory (and the way it has been (mis)replicated over and over) supposes that a person would need to fulfill their basic needs BEFORE they could connect and even recognize more complex and individualized needs. (What in the video is called spiritual needs, is referred to as "being needs" for Maslow.). If that's to be the truth, a beggar would not need love - I know this statement is also oversimplified, but it is just to bring critical analysis... Another example of this misinterpretation is McGregor's affirmation that “The man whose lower-level needs are satisfied is not motivated to satisfy those needs. For practical purposes, they exist no longer.” Maslow has never stated that. Actually he was quite careful on pointing out that the hierarchy of need is relative and not absolute. He felt that people could have multiple needs unfulfilled at the same time and be motivated by many of them. Also, it is very important to highlight that this theory, if considered as a pyramid or staircase (another common misrepresentation) would ignore different cultural priorities in each society, that highly influence higher needs, due to social pressure. A deeper research on Maslow's work could result in a richer understanding of his view on human motivation, much broader and more meaningful than this fake pyramid. ;^)

Well done. I was introduced to this pyramid in my youth and have carried it with me ever since. Great refresh.

I learned this in psychology but had not saw it that way. Now I understand the importance behind it.

How power, sex and hunger motivates our thoughts and actions is not hidden from any thoughtful person.

It should also called the path to self-owarness.

A pretty good theory. Gives a general understanding of what humans desire. In today's time, I believe most people get so caught up in self esteem needs and forget that their are others out their who are lucky to even meet physiological and safety needs from day to day. Not to say self-esteem needs isnt relevant, rather, be appreciative of securing the survival needs.

thank you for school of life, love all info and videos, helps self improvement

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When I am going to be a parent I will ensure that my kid watches the school of Life to get the grasp of what really matters!

Thank you for making and sharing this videos

This s a part of the project management professional study. It tries to define what drives people at different levels, which is pretty complex

I get my physiological needs. No wonder I am feeling empty. I am spiritually starved. Welcome to the results of childhood emotional neglect.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and how it can be applied to developing nations over time. Not exactly profound since countries are made of people so it's just the hierarchy at a larger scale, but it's still a fun way to pass the time. Also that inverted pyramid is the concept of decadence in picture form. Schools really should be using that in history classes if they haven't already. Great way to bridge the two subjects a little.

Thank you at TSOL for your visionary project, reaching out to people in a comprehensable way with a lot of incredibly important lessons of life. I love Maslows work allthough according to the great psychologist Scott Barry Kauffman, Maslow actually never presented the hierarchy of needs in a pyramid. This came later as a part of a sales companys selling modell (if i remember correctly) and had nothing to do with Maslow. Other psychologist have continued working with the hierarchy of needs, amongs others Dr.Kauffman.

Superb! Thank you.

Fact: You cannot go into self-actualization/successful self without fulfilling first the physiological/basic needs.

I think different people can fit different forms of the pyramid

I've always hoped coperations will fulfill higher needs beyond the material realm, Maslow truely is a pure soul

Excellent and almost completely perfect imo . I share this info a lot.