Abraham Maslow Model

Abraham Maslow believed that people possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires. He then created a five stage model of the most important human needs starting at the bottom with: physiological needs, then safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and finally self-actualization needs. He then discovered that one must first establish lower level needs before progressing up to higher level needs. Every human is fully capable of achieving the highest level of needs, which is self actualization. Physiological needs include needs such as: air, food, water, shelter, etc. Safety needs would classify as security, order, or stability. Social or love and belongingness needs would consider friendship, intimacy, and of course love. Esteem needs are needs like achievement, …show more content…
All essentials to living. The second level, safety needs, i have also acquired. Security, stability, protection from fear are a few things in the safety needs. My parents have given me security, and i live in a place where the is no need to really fear. Next, social needs, I have a loving family and many friends which it is important to have that connection in life. Next, is esteem needs which is things such as achievement, mastery, or independence. I have worked my whole life at baseball and have won many awards and tournaments. It is a big accomplishment, therefore an achievement in my life. The independence part comes from the time I was alone working extra hard to achieve my goal. The United States of America is good place to find independence in general if you need it. Finally, the highest level of needs, self-actualization. This one is the hardest to overcome. Usually, you would not reach this goal until later on in your life. Right now, as a young kid i have not met this goal, and someday i hope i will. It is all about finding yourself, knowing who you are, and knowing what you want to leave