Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs"

These two days in the library read a book on psychology, which contains Maslow's hierarchy of needs that I remember deeply. Through study, I learned the level of need as a social person!

Maslow (1943)[6] noted that people need the motivation to realize certain needs, some of which take precedence over others.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation in psychology that includes a five-level model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical within a pyramid. From the bottom up of the hierarchy, the needs are: physiology (food and clothing), safety (job security), social needs (friendship), respect, and self-actualization. This five-stage model can be divided into insufficient demand and growth demand. The first four levels are often referred to as defective requirements (D requirements), while the highest levels are called growth requirements (B requirements).

So physical needs and security needs are also called basic needs, while social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs are also called advanced needs. After reading these concepts and explanations, we can see that when a person's most basic needs cannot be met, he does not want other levels of need. Just like we usually guarantee our own food, clothing, shelter and transportation (physical needs), we will think about how to get a sense of security (security needs), and then when we contact the people around us (social needs), we want to get the respect of others and ultimately realize self-worth.

For example, a recently popular word "social fear", when a person with social fear comes into contact with a new environment, they will first think of meeting their own security needs, which is a sense of security, so it is difficult for them to meet the next level - social needs. Seeing this, you think carefully, is it yourself in life or around your friends, family, and partners who also have such an experience. In fact, this all belongs to the category of demand hierarchy theory. It's not hard to see that a successful person tends to focus more on high-level needs because they've already achieved the basic needs. This can also be used to explain the motivation of us humans to do certain actions.