Abraham Maslow is a famous American social psychologist and the founder of the third generation of psychology. He developed Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs.
Maslow divided human needs into physiological needs, security needs, belonging and love needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs from low to high. Maslow believed that the lower the need, the stronger the motivation it produces, and the more it can drive human behavior; But the more advanced the needs, the more they can reflect the sociality of people, that is, their characteristics and values. When the low-level needs are satisfied, the higher-level needs begin to appear and dominate people's behavior, and the following is a quote from the Ming Dynasty legal calendarist Zhu Zaiyu's prose "Mountain Slope Sheep: Ten Insufficiencies" to illustrate the needs of different levels.
Rushing day by day is just for hunger, so that you have to have food and clothing.
Put Aya Luo on her body, but look up but think the house is low.
built tall buildings and mansions, and there was a lack of beautiful wives in front of the bed.
The beautiful wives and concubines are all married, and they are worried that they will not have a horse to ride when they go out.
Buy the money to buy the high-headed horse, and follow the horse before and after.
The family recruited more than a dozen, and they were bullied because they were rich and powerless.
Yiquan reached the county position, and said that the official position was low.
As soon as you climb to the old position, you will be enthroned every day.
Once he sat in the south of the world, he wanted the gods to play chess.
Dongbin accompanied him to play chess, and asked where the ladder was.
The ladder to the sky was not done, and the king of Hades dealt cards to urge him.
If it weren't for this person's big limit, it would be too low to go up to the sky.
Of course, the work itself has the meaning of warning the world, but it also shows that people will actively pursue high-level needs when low-level needs are satisfied, and individuals will have the motivation to work hard, and society will continue to progress.
According to Maslow, self-actualization is the highest level of need, and it is also the most difficult need to satisfy. Self-actualization refers to the ability of an individual to reach their potential and express their talents to the fullest extent possible.
Maslow believed that people only feel the greatest satisfaction when they reach their full potential. Maslow's study of some of the most prominent figures, including Spinoza, Goethe, Lincoln, Einstein, and the famous scientists and university students he had access to, summed up 16 personality traits of self-actualized people:
1.Understand and recognize reality, and have a more realistic outlook on life.
2.Be comfortable with yourself, others, and the world around you.
3.It is more natural in the expression of emotions and thoughts.
4.Have a broader vision, look at things on a case-by-case basis, and give less consideration to personal interests.
5.You can enjoy your own private life.
6.Have an independent and autonomous character.
7.Don't get bored with ordinary things, and always keep your daily life fresh.
8.There have been peak experiences in my life that caused my heart to shake.
9.Love humanity and identify yourself as a member of all humanity.
10.There are deep acquaintances and close family members.
11. Be democratic and respect the opinions of others.
12.Possess an ethical concept, be able to distinguish between means and ends, and never unscrupulously do things to achieve the end.
13.Philosophical temperament and a sense of humor.
14.Be creative and non-conformist.
15.It is not easy to disagree with the world.
16.Have the willingness and ability to constantly improve the living environment.
Can you take a look at what personality traits you have? In addition, Maslow also gave some advice on how to achieve self-actualization:
1.Experience life fully, actively, and selflessly.
2.When faced with a choice, always make the choice to grow, not to make the choice to go backwards.
3.Listen to your inner voice and let your nature manifest spontaneously instead of being an authority or a mouthpiece of tradition.
4.Not hiding one's point of view and speaking out honestly means taking responsibility, and every time taking responsibility is a self-actualization.
5.Dare to face your true self and dare to be different.
6.Demanding oneself with first-class standards and achieving this standard through diligent efforts, self-realization is not only an outcome state, but also a process.
7.Create the conditions to experience peak experiences.
8.He is good at recognizing and having the courage to give up his own defensive mentality, to remove the layers of barriers that suppress and obscure life, but not to deny any sacred value, but to discover the sacred, eternal, symbolic and poetic from the existence of life itself.
Maslow's peak experience is a "trembling, euphoric, satisfying, transcendent experience that comes from the depths of the soul", the highest state of spiritual satisfaction. It is similar to the Taoist hearing of the Tao and the epiphany of Buddhism. Although not everyone can achieve self-realization, and not everyone will experience peak experiences, we might as well try to change our lives according to Maslow's advice, and maybe there will be unexpected gains.
A little bit of psychology every day, strengthen your heart, and live your true self.