famed psychologist Abraham Maslow https://t.co/wVUOZzYPOJ
Reading Maslow is like putting on a new pair of glasses that allow you to see people more clearly. He says, “Although human beings are capable of being selfish, lustful, and aggressive, that is not what they are fundamentally. Beneath the surface, at the psychological and biological core of human nature, we find basic goodness and decency. When peo
... See moreGene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
When Abraham Maslow did clinical studies of people who self-actualized, one thing that set them apart from others was, he wrote, that they lived “more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs, and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.” They were, to put it simply, more per... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Becoming Perceptive
In a paper entitled ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ published in Psychological Review in 1943, Maslow arranged our longings and appetites in a pyramid-shaped continuum, ranging from what he called the lower needs, largely focused on the body, to the higher needs, largely focused on the psyche and encompassing such elements as the need for status, re
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
In 1943, the psychologist Abraham Maslow published his hugely influential paper “A Theory of Human Motivation,” which famously described people as having a hierarchy of needs. It is often depicted as a pyramid. At the bottom are our basic needs—the essentials of physiological survival (such as food, water, and air) and of safety (such as law, order
... See moreAtul Gawande • Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End (Wellcome Collection)
Maslow is best known for defining the “hierarchy of needs,” which describes how human desires evolve as more primary needs are met.
Carol S. Pearson • The Hero and the Outlaw
