 Today, we are going to begin our fourth module, where we would be talking about once again the factors related to human adjustment processes. Today, we are going to begin with something what is called as maintenance needs. Those of you who have been to the introductory psychology course, they must have gone through the need hierarchy theory of Abraham Maslow. Do you remember that theory? How many of you had undergone PSY 151? The Maslow's need hierarchy theory basically talks about certain types of human needs, which are put in the hierarchical order. The hierarchy is such that you have something like pyramid structure, where at the base you have the physiological needs or they are called the biogenic needs, hunger, thirst, sex and sleep. These four are considered to be biogenic needs because they are biologically wired within us as human beings. Rest of the needs are called as psychosociogenic needs, means these are basically psychological needs, which also has social origin, where I think of need for affiliation, where I have that I tend to satisfy my need for belongingness, need for security. You want certain things in your life to be very, very stable. You do not want to begin life everyday from the scratch. That is the need for security, need for affiliation, that I should belong to somebody. I should be able to say that these are my family member, these are my friends, these are the people whom I can trust or others who can say that I am a trustworthy man, others who can say that he is a part of my family, others who can say that he is a good friend of mine. This satisfies our need for affiliation. Once you achieve this state then you move to a state what is called as need for self-steam, where you realize that several components in your life have been under your control and hence your overall self-steam increases. Everybody would like to attain that state and the final stage what is called as need for self-actualization. Self-actualization is a state where you have your own philosophy of life, you advocate it and there are many who will follow you. Now, Maslow's need hierarchy theory, basically it is in the pyramid shape. So, at the base you have the biogenic needs, on the top you have the need for self-actualization. Now, what a Graham Maslow says is that, when you start satisfying your human needs, you begin with basically satisfying your biogenic needs first and then you start moving upwards. Now, when you move upwards, it is not that say a particular need has to be completely satisfied to attain stage 2. For example, hunger, thirst, now these are the needs that are recurrent in nature. So, I had my food, but again after couple of hours I will feel hungry. So, that need to satisfy hunger will once again crop in, but I am very much comfortable now, because I know that once I feel hungry, I have an option of visiting a place where I can find food of my choice. Hence, my biogenic needs are satisfied and I know that needs that are recurrent in nature will also be catered to. Hence, I very comfortably move to level 2. Once it is now partially satisfied and I feel comfortable with it, I go ahead satisfying my need for security and this is how people keep moving. One interpretation of this pyramid shape is that you have to move when your larger part of your effort, your time goes into satisfying the needs which know acquires the largest space in the need hierarchy theory of Abraham Maslow. Means, more and more of your time and energy would initially go into satisfying the biogenic needs. The other interpretation of it is that a larger number of population still remains satisfying the needs which acquires a larger space in the need hierarchy theory. This would mean that you will have large number of people still struggling to satisfy their biogenic needs, need for affiliation, need for security. Whereas, very few who would reach the level of self actualization where one would be professing certain ways of life and there would be thousands and millions of people following him or her. So, this is all about the need hierarchy theory. From adjustment point of view, the importance of this very need hierarchy model is that you have to gradually move towards satisfying the upper needs. Means, you begin with satisfying the biogenic needs and then you gradually move to a stage where you are not at all concerned about satisfying certain needs of your life and you are celebrated like a hero in a particular discipline whom people obey. You have a large disciples following you. Now, assume a situation when you somehow get convinced that you should be starting from the center instead of starting from the beginning. So, instead of satisfying the biogenic needs first, you first starts from somewhere in the pyramid. What happens then? That could be one theoretical possibility. Other theoretical possibility could be that instead of climbing up, you start sliding down. You start from the top and then I gradually come down. Now, think of these theoretical possibilities. The psychological researches prove that if you are moving upwards and there is a gradual movement in terms of satisfying needs, the stability component in your life is relatively higher compared to when you think of making quantum jumps. Let us take a parallel type of an example. Say you are in nursery, you go to class 1 and because you are too good compared to rest of your classmates, you are given a higher grade. But that does not mean that right from class 1, you are so great therefore, you move to class 10. That does not happen. So, quantum jumps are usually not allowed in certain type of setups and even in terms of satisfying needs, it is always suggested that you move gradually and have stability. So, if I have moved one step ahead, I am comfortable with this movement. I am also comfortable with the stage where I have attained and there is no risk of sliding back. So, once I have now given the pass the exam of class 1 and I move to class 2, I know that there is no point in sliding back. I would not be reverted back to class 1. So, even in terms of satisfying the needs, the same principle follows that you satisfy your biogenic needs, you satisfy your need for affiliation, security, self-steam and then you move up to self-actualization rather than making quantum jumps. It reminds me of very beautiful story. I do not know if anybody has read this story. This is basically a story which is full of Buddhist philosophy and certain type of discourse that takes place in that story. If you are interested in stories like that, do read it. It is a fantastic story. It goes like this. There is a small time farmer in a village who happens to be facing constant struggle with his life. So, he does not have good crops coming out of his field. He had certain imbalances within the family and he is finally, is pissed. And that was the time when Harshwar then happened to be the king of India and Buddhist philosophy was being professed everywhere as a way of life. Now, this farmer also heard about it. So, what he did was he thought that Buddha went to the forest. He sat under a banyan tree. So, he could find out certain type of key indicators of reaching that state. And to him reaching that state was like say you have to leave your house, you have to go to a forest, you have to sit under a banyan tree, you have to close your eyes, you have to meditate. And you also become enlightened and therefore, you get rid of all these problems. This is what he thought. So, he left his house, went to a forest, sat under a banyan tree, closed his eyes. But somehow because he had walked quite a bit, therefore, he started feeling hungry. So, it was difficult for him to remain his eyes closed and concentrate mentally while he was meditating, trying to meditate. So, pangs of hunger did not allow him to do this. That was one part of it. Second part of it was that the moment he used to close his eyes, he used to be little scared that there could be few animals coming from any side that can be dangerous for his life. And these two things did not allow him to meditate. He is a struggle continued for some time and then he decided that there is no point leading a life like this. As a farmer, I have failed. As a person who was trying to replicate the Buddhist way of life, following the way he got enlightenment, he thought he will also attain and he has failed. So, he decided to commit suicide. He came to the bank of the river. When he found out there was a boat passing by and there were few people on the boat and the people on the boat thought that this man probably is also willing to go where we are going. So, they said, you do not know that the king Harshwar then has asked for a royal debate on the Buddhist philosophy of life. So, we are all going there. So, come with us and this man thought that I could not meditate, could not get the enlightenment. So, let me go and see the discourse. So, he also boarded the boat. Went there, now starts scene 2 of the story where the king is there on the dais. The lead priest who is professing the Buddhist philosophy is there on the dais. And then there is somebody who makes these loud announcements and there was a huge crowd sitting downwards. And then the king announced that fine we are here to debate the Buddhist way of life. So, this monk will know one by one talk about the key elements of Buddhist way of life. And if anybody has a contradictory viewpoint, raise your hand and share it. We will have a discourse. If you are able to satisfy the monk's viewpoint, means if you take a upper lead as it used to happen, you will be given reward of these many gold coins. But if you are not able to do that and in turn you know the perception would be that you were trying to tarnish the image of the Buddhist way of life, then you would be beheaded. So, a great price for not satisfying compared to the small price that was being paid for satisfying the monk. Now, with all those things celebration, the monk stood and he gave the first sermon that this is what the Buddhist philosophy says. This is what Buddha has suggested and there was complete silence. And suddenly this farmer raises his hand and the king thought that a farmer like him cannot argue with the monk. So, he said are you sure, did you really raise your hand and he said yes I have some doubt. And thereafter the story takes a beautiful shape where you have the hardcore Buddhist philosophy and a contradictory viewpoint from a commons man point of view. And it is very logical when you read the first logic you say very convincing, you read the second logic and it is very convincing. And it is very difficult to finally come to a conclusion which logic is more effective, more sound, more justified. So, this is how the debate continued first viewpoint, the farmer contradicted and poor farmer said let us see I am not a monk, I am just a farmer who had very tough life and therefore I am trying to understand this, suggesting my experience of life and his experience of life was complete in contrast with what this monk was suggesting. And first point, second point, third point no and then finally there was absolute silence on the dies, the monk keeps quiet and the king asks do not you have a response to his questions. And the monk at the end says that is a I know there is no nothing wrong with the Buddhist way of life, but I must admit that what he says is also correct. And the discourse ends there, it is a beautiful way why I was narrating this story to you was, if you try to know make quantum jumps like this farmer did. From an adjustment point of view you run on the risk of developing one or the other problems which might require attention of certain stakeholders in the society, it could be detrimental for the society, it could require special attention of caregivers, it could even lead to certain imbalances in your own psychological processes. I will take another example, these are all you know historic characters, I am sure you must be aware of King Bharat on whose name this country was named Bharat. In his dynasty there were two brothers Yati and Yaiyati. And there is a very interesting story about these two brothers, one of them was more into worldly affairs and royal way of life. He was into this, the other brother somehow in his early adolescence, he thought that no sainthood is the best way of leading life. So, two brothers were completely in contrast with each other in terms of their whole approach towards life, one who was leading a saintly life right from his adolescent years, second who was completely into all types of deeds and from the modern point of view even misdeeds that usually are associated with royal way of life. This continued for years and the boy, the brother who had gone to attaining that stage of sainthood did all types of things to gain some certain you know supernatural power. He did attain those supernatural powers according to whatever the historic facts or the myth exist in our culture. But at the end of it, this man who was you know thinking of having you know extraordinary extra humanly powers with him comes to one point agenda in his life and at one point agenda was that with the help of the supernatural power that he will acquire, he will convert all women to men and he had his own interpretation why this world should have only men and not women. Now, think of you know quantum jumps like this that instead of starting life and moving in you know step by step method, you just decide at one point of time biological needs not at all worried, need for affiliation not at all needed, need for security I do not need it. I will begin with self-steam and go to self actualization, but at the end all you do is that after attaining that stage to certain extent, you slide back and you start from satisfying certain biogenic and certain socio-genic needs and that is the reason why we always focus on maintenance needs when we talk about human adjustment process. What we will do now is that we will take the key maintenance needs and we will discuss them all of them at length to try to see you know that how important it is for human beings to have these needs within them. If they do not have it, it might be detrimental for their own adjustment level. We first come to the first maintenance needs curiosity, all of us are curious by nature. Think of a small baby when babies are not able to discriminate between objects, between the presence and the absence of the object. There also there are very beautiful studies in psychology that talks about curiosity in small babies who cannot converse, but you can make out the difference through the expressions that they have on their faces. There are beautiful research on this, many, many research papers, beautiful videos that has come out of those lab experiments. It is like something like say you make a baby sit with a caretaker or the mother, because you cannot make the baby sit all alone on the chair and then you present say a fruit for example, an apple is presented before the baby. There is no some sense of recognition that you realize in the face of the baby and then you hide the fruit and you say certain type of change in the expression of the baby's face to realize that the baby cannot understand know that something that was present has gone missing. It has been put at the back, but that displeasure of that absence can be decoded on the face of the baby. Little later, I do not those of you who have no interacted with small babies, if you hide something and the moment you move your arm the babies know perhaps that the object has to do with either of the movement of the arm. So, say if there is something and if I remove it the baby knows that this hand has been used to remove the object. So, the object lies in the hand if it is not in the hand then you must have dropped somewhere around or if you do like this without holding the object then also the first tendency is to detect the trajectory know. So, this movement this direction this speed somewhere it must have fallen in that direction small babies can make such productions. These are guided by our basic tendency of curiosity, I am curious about the environment. Small babies have been found not to be scared of the animals which usually most of us are extremely scared of. Snakes for example, the other day we took the example that if you are told that we saw a black cobra in this room, but somehow we could not locate it and make it go out of it. So, beware of snakes in the room today all of you would keep know looking for the snake instead of looking at the projection because of our basic tendency to be scared of snakes, but leave small babies with snakes in a situation and they will try to hold the snake they will try to touch the snake they are not at all scared. So, these things are again know guided by the basic sense of curiosity. Why I am giving these examples says that we all right from our know basic days as a human baby we all are driven by certain sense of curiosity and this curiosity further starts getting tamed the once we have our formal education. You are supposed to be curious in one direction you are stopped by certain stakeholders not to be curious about the other things. Let us take certain examples say you go to your school and you are told that see in this period you have to go to a hall which will be packed with books we called at place library and all of you should read minimum one story and in the next day you when you come to the school you will have to narrate what you had read. I think many of you must have undergone such experiences in your school days when you are made to be curious about certain things know or when know the good schools now a days will have all types of display mechanisms visual displays to drag your curiosity more and more towards the subject. So, that you pay more attention and in that process you will learn know much more comfortably whatever you learn remains with you for a relatively longer period of time. But say think of certain issues which with which are contemporary Indian system is still struggling sex education for example, the central board of secondary education I know that it has been know working on sex education in the schools for last so many so many years. There were special groups that were formed for this the group had to identify what type of content in what form at what level for how much duration everything has been planned when it came to execution interesting things happen. Schools said that compared to the teachers students have good relationship with their parents. So, the parents should be know the agent who gives this information to the kids parents said fine this is not our business I cannot know convey my child these stuff this is schools responsibility. Now, in the school who gives know this information think of the taboo that is associated with know something that has to do with curiosity in the schools two things happen few schools suggested that we have moral education and the teacher who takes this class engages know moral education class should be talking about this and they said fine we talk about moral education as if this is an immoral act. Hence, what to do now biology teacher and biology teacher says I have the full syllabus to teach know this is not my syllabus and this continued know within this first with the between the parents in the schools then within the school who gives this information and I know most of know this schools did not do that one school in Maharashtra tried it out first day second day and then there was a big demonstration in front of this school that children are being spoiled culture is being spoiled and finally, the school had to be draw that the school was simply trying to implement was CBC had suggested that was to the best of my knowledge the isolated episode of implementing sex education in India. Since then everything was put under the carpet till date schools do not have it, but then is it that once you move to adolescence and you move towards your young adulthood years is it that your curiosity on this subject ceases the answer is no. You tend to explore more and more and instead of know having information which is far more scientific know which is full of all types of know medical recommendations may be I come to know from one source which might not be authentic at all some source which is full of fantasy third source which could be only and only anatomy and nothing else. And hence our curiosity makes us move in several other directions think of know people who were know curious about exploring something. And finally, they have they had put their ears and ears of their life into one small thing to finally, realize that yes atom has electron proton and newton. Now, once you have know such type of things if you read the biographies of these people you would realize know 14 years of life gone into exploring one thing, but you take extreme pride you would have know you say that all these years were extremely pleasurable for you. Because you are still driven by that sense of curiosity we have taken this example of know electron proton newton. So, you must be aware of J. J. Thompson's research know J. J. Thompson was so involved in his lab activities when he was trying to decipher know the ingredients of an atom that know most of his time used to spent in his lab exploring the configuration of the atom. And the day when he had to exchange rings the wedding ring he forgot know that today my marriage is scheduled I have to go to the church and then exchange the ring he was still working on whatever he was working on in his lab. And then his friend has to give you a call to him come on here we all are waiting for you including the bride where are you and he said come on I am still struggling with something it is important let me finish it off then I will be visiting the church. And then he was bulldozed by his friend at come on ok marriage can not wait. So, you have to come there he went there exchange the rings and then said that can you drop my wife to my house I have to go to the lab because I have to complete certain things. That could be know the extreme of curiosity that you can think of in terms of striking balances between different other factors in life ok. You would find you know thousands and thousands of people of course, you want to find such numbers in lakhs and millions, but you will find thousands of people who were extremely guided by this whole sense of curiosity throughout their life ok. So, I am sure people like the man who explored and invested in all possible formats that nucleic acid he even went to the extent of you know smelling the bandages that are thrown in the garbages in the hospitals. So, it stings in a very peculiar way the hospital garbages has a peculiar smell. So, used to smell it he could and decipher. So, even at times he tasted it that can on the basis of the taste I can decipher what actually it is. The big success story of a small man from a small southern state in India who went ahead with this sanitary napkins in our country. If you read his biography it is full of all types of misunderstandings in his life because people thought he is actually weird. And all he wanted was that there can be something that can be done at the local panchayat level women themselves can produce it use it and it can be disposed very easily without causing any concern compared to big brands into these this industry. And a handful of Indian women able to afford the price that at which they sell these products. And then you have all types of taboos associated with the disposal of such things. He is a living legend in our country right now listen to him sometime read about him sometime. And you will find know how much of struggle he know even went to the extent of collecting because he wanted what type of material is best suited that can be very easily be made available to all Indian houses. And he went to the extent of collecting know the use sanitary napkins that was thrown here and there he would collect them spread them on the table study them what type of material know and all types of product details. A time came when his mother deserted her son she thought my son has gone mad that time when his wife thought this man has gone mad he is collecting all know used sanitary napkins and there is pleasure out of it some type of deviation both of them know mother deserted the son wife deserted the husband. And this man was still passionate about it know. So, what is so big know about it at to 120 rupees you sell 5 or 7 pieces of these things. And he was the guiding force also was know that once is of course the business plan. And his plan was know that this technology with the raw material is available by enlarge in every part of India. So, make the local women in all villages aware of this fact know let them produce it themselves why should know 2 or 3 big partners international partners come into this business and earn money out of it. He was also driven by the fact that India also has a very high number of you know infections you know UTIs you really track infections. You can very easily have know life with minimal you need to track infection if you go for certain hygienic practices despite the fact that his mother deserted him despite the fact that his wife deserted him this man continued and succeeded. And now you have those know very cheap products available in the market still he is know working on that working on the business model where as I told you that the plan is that you know the women in each village can be trained know and you have one small place in your know panchayat bhawan or anywhere where this small cohort of women from a locality know makes it knows the number makes it themselves does not. So, curiosity can take all types of shapes know we have taken the example of J. J. Thompson we took this example of this man we took the example of nucleus a nucleic acid we took example of children even if you read the whole invention of aeroplane know right from Montgolf to know this yes and to the modern supersonic jets know when you look at the whole range of things there was a buddhist monk in UK who thought that know because birds they dive from a height therefore they can fly. So, if I also use my two arms and jump from a height I can also fly and that man made a jump and he died although he died think of that to know sense of curiosity that would have propelled him to even imagine know that he can wave his arm and can fly like any other bird you are driven by curiosity when the great scientist Newton in his early childhood days he thought wide are the birds capable of flying and his imagination was that because they eat insects he saw birds eating insects and he thought that probably they eat insects therefore they can fly and therefore know time came in his life when he made some oral syrup full of insects and fortunately instead of taking himself he gave it to somebody else who was sick had to be taken to the hospital and then this story got deciphered this is what had happened. So, curiosity can be in all forms know the importance of this need is that it somewhere know always gives you a feel that there are several things that you still need to look at and hence you never get completely satisfied at any point in your life you reach a level to know that life is beyond this also you reach a particular level to realize that achievement is beyond this level also you reach a particular level to realize that recognition is beyond this level also and your curiosity of exploring life exploring achievements exploring different know dimensions of different different things in life acts as a propeller for you and hence you never sink in your life know you go ahead you float at times and then you again start know moving in the other direction. So, life constantly moves for you and this is considered to be an important factor in life from adjustment point of view also because you know that there are several unmet things for which you have to constantly work and therefore things like know developing that depressive tendency developing a great sense of detachment that whole feeling of you sinking or all types of know depressive feelings that makes you think of terminating your life those things will never come if you are guided by if you have that curiosity always propelling you to move in the in the one or the other direction now the more curious you are much better you will understand things the beauty of understanding also is that once you understand things you also realize that there could be the other way of looking at it. So, there is nothing like say know only one perspective one thing can be looked from different perspective and depending on which perspective you adopt you will interpret the particular action the particular phenomena in a different way. So, your understanding of something might be different compared to my understanding and because we live in a composite society which comprises of millions and millions of us therefore how much is my understanding facilitating my overall know assimilation in the community how much I am able to understand the contradictory viewpoints in life how much I am able to understand the fact that I have understood it one way the other person although its contradictory has understood in the second way, but there could be a third possibility too and you are open to such things in life. Basically, you act more like a porous object who would allow know new things to pour in and you would know reexamine your own understanding your own belief your own know thought process. So, curiosity and understanding will that way know very easily fit in the process and because you have understood things in a much better way therefore you lead life with greater degree of satisfaction. So, a couple of years back somebody from the princely state in Karnataka whose family the royal family had accumulated lots of wealth decided that he would lead life like a monk and they had know those precious jewellery's precious stones as part of their heritage and that man sat on the top of an elephant in the southern one of the southern states took all that the family had accumulated for those many thousand and thousands of years and just was know throwing it on the street and people came grabbing it. Now, think of understanding know somebody who understands that these things are immaterial life is beyond this therefore he is throwing what he already has the other person who thinks it is important to grab these things. So, same phenomena and you find two different know set of understanding for the life I am sure all of you must have read this story in your English books perhaps it is in class 10th 11th or 12th I do not remember the class now. Beautiful story where two friends had a discussion that can anybody know live in isolation for long period of time and one friend was of the view that if you are put in isolation it is terrible nobody can live life like that. The other friend was of the view that know if you are given good books they are good friends. So, in the company of good books you can certainly live for long in isolation and they had a bet the boy who said that it is not possible was know extremely rich and the boy who said that it is possible with books was from a very moderate background. So, they had a bet and this I do not remember the number of years perhaps it was some years of confinement in a small room where only the food will come and new books will be regularly sent to him. And this boy was very sure damn sure that my friend will certainly know start hitting the door or the window one day and say please allow me to go out I cannot live alone. And he was very sure he was very happy and this boy was very happy being inside the room because he got chance know to read as much as he could. The other friend was know continuing supplying him good books and after certain time when it was coming towards the terminal end of the bet period the other friend became very anxious know because the bet was that if I win then I will hand over all my wealth to you. So, he was very know now anxious that I will have to hand over everything that belongs to me to him because we will win the bet because he is coming towards the close end. And few moment before the actual time was supposed to be over this boy came running in because he thought know that he will beg pardon and he will say that yes you have won the bet. And he realized that the door was open there was nobody inside the room his friend had left the room with a small cheat which said that thank you for providing me this opportunity. After know reading these many things I am now much better I have much better understanding of life and I understand that wealth is nothing. Hence keep your wealth with you I will keep my knowledge with myself thanks and he left the room. That is know another way of looking at understanding. So, all I am trying to say is that different types of needs they all influence our understanding or way the way we would interact with the situations in our life which in turn will decide whether we are able to strike the balance in our life or we know tend to become more and more deviant. And how much we comply to the expected social norm how much we are able to satisfy our own personal desires and how much opportunity we give to ourselves and to others to grow in this process collectively. So, that is about understanding then the third factor comes where you will like know things to be in order. And the reason why you want to want things to be in order is because it increases the possibility of making productions. Being orderly in life is fantastic you have a particular time when you go to the bed you have a particular time when you wake up you have a breakfast time you have a study time. So, for most of the major businesses in life you have fixed timings your life is orderly even doctors would recommend know that do not have you know variation in your sleep timing. If you have a random sleep timings then it is going to put you in trouble in a very big way. So, try to have a regulated you know sleep similarly have you know regulated eating practices also do not go for random you know once you have breakfast at 5 o clock in the morning next day at 10 o clock third day no breakfast at all do not have this type of a random variations. Other things in terms of being orderly is that how much you are you know adhering to the social norm. So, that you in the society and society at large remains in that orderly fashion there is no major hiccups. So, maintaining order at the personal level allowing order to be maintained at the social level and when you are in small groups you try to maintain that order that very need which makes you appreciate order that makes you know fall in order also helps you adjust in a much better way. And the more orderly you are the more curious you were the more you have understood all these three things will know further now make you predict certain things because you have experienced things you have understood things. You were curious you explored more because you explored more you understood well because you understood well and you have put things in order you know you can realize that now there is a component of predictability. For example, if I have been you know curious about the course content if I have been curious about reading the details if I have understood the subject matter clearly. If you have know put arranged all these information and knowledge put together in order then be it quiz be it mid-sem exam be it end-sem exam you can predict your score I will certainly be above this. I will certainly be know gaining much better than those who have not studied well that helps you predict. On the other hand you can find the predictability in another interesting format where you ask somebody you show your palm and somebody who says know that I am a palmist and I can read the lines and tells you know this is what it is and this is what it is not and you should do this you should do that there are people know who does this and the business thrives those who are into such businesses they thrive like anything you must have seen on the pavements know parrots in small cages with few cards and you do not rely your own intelligence you rely the intelligence of a parrot who would randomly go and pick a card and this man who will charge you 1 rupee 2 rupee or 5 rupees will tell you this is what your card says. It does not say that there was a parrot who did not apply the brain simply mechanically went and brought a card similarly those who give you gems know have this in this finger have this in this finger have that on Monday have this on Tuesday this on Thursday all you do you do all of this because you want your life to follow an order so that there is the component of predictability and more and more you are able to predict the more and more is the consonance level know because if you have a higher degree of unpredictability in life that creates great degree of dissonance within you and human beings are not so capable of handling dissonance that know that is the point where you develop one or the other abrasions in the behavior you pay the price for being associated with dissonance for a longer period and hence people would always like to have predictability in their life because this will help them minimize dissonance if you minimize dissonance in life life is very orderly and you are able to strike balance in life in most of the situation and hence your adjustment will never it never be a stick.