3.4 - Mazlow's Hierarchy

based on the textbook "Microeconomics for MBAs"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• microeconomics
• economics
• UCI
• Irvine
• McKenzie

[anryth]

the real question is, what the hell is the price of love?

[Seraphin69]

You are welcome. Sharing with the community is part of my self actualization. Even if You help one person just a bit, this can spread on, like the butterfly effect.

"Pay It Forward" when time comes.

[metalbelias1]

Interesting facts my friend, thanks for replying to my question. A big thanks for sharing with the community! It really widened my horizon.

[Seraphin69]

They can be used to self-actualisation, since it's demanded by a person, has value and a price (I don't mean money). Life is the supplier. What it takes in return is most profoundly... Your time, of which You have a limited supply.

Self-actualisation can make You live a life that threateans the "lower needs" (at least temporarily). Though it can be an investment. You work on self-a. now, while loosing on other needs, but later on this self-a. makes You better at satisfying other needs.

[Seraphin69]

Nothing is free, but the price is not necessarily money. There's time, effort, emotion, health, integrity, etc.

[Seraphin69]

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And at the same time, working on higher levels can reduce Your demand for lower levels. E.g. if You are more self-a., more in control of Your emotions and behaviours, You can feel less interested in lower needs or simply those needs might now be less costly. E.g. self-a. may make You less afraid of things, more in control, more aware of real risks and thus reduce Your demand for safety needs.

It may also reshape how You try to achieve lower needs. Same goal; different, productive means.

[Seraphin69]

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The thing is some means of achieving a higher value at one level (for example increasing esteem or gaining more love) can be achieved by sacrificing or creating baricades on the way to achieving higher values at a different level.

For example You can increase Your Love/Friendship/Family by sacrificing Your self-esteem to the abusive partner. Or You can increase this value by becoming someone the other person wants You to be, instead of being Yourself. You are selling self-r. for love.

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[Seraphin69]

Yes. One can move to working on Self-Actualization without getting the lower needs satisfied. One reason is that these levels are not a 0 or 1 thing. They are a 0 to infinity thing. Usually people (in the Western Culture) think You need to first take care of such things as getting a partner and financial stability and only later, if those are achieved should You consider pursuing self-actualization (a lot of people don't even understand what that means).

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[JBraden]

In some ways it seems a paradox; but it reinforces the old saying "the best things in life are free"; however you can't truly get to living most of your life at that level until you've mastered the ability to take care of the things which aren't free...

[allensugar]

I agree with your analysis braden. The lower needs are variant on money whilst the highest needs (should) be invariant to money.