What Do I Stand For? Abraham Maslow proposed a pattern of human motivations that develop through growth. He talks about how people must satisfy certain needs/wants before they can achieve the highest level of motivation, self actualization. This term means that we reach our full potential as humans by acceptance of facts, concern with others problems, open with their lives, independent, and having a continuous appreciation for the world. Self actualization is something that you cannot achieve without moving through Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs. These needs include: physiological, safety, love/belonging, and esteem. I strive first to achieve self actualization then help my family, friends, community, and possibly the world to have an opportunity
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Esteem stage is about building your self esteem, confidence, and gaining achievement and respect from others. I am moving toward this stage by continuing with an education that will put me in a situation where I can help people every day by providing them with knowledge, the motivation to learn, and guidance toward self actualization. The stage of self actualization includes creativity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, and acceptance of facts. I am partly in this stage because I am coming to a point in my life that I start to think about things deeply and come up with conclusions based on what I know. For example, in this English class, we ponder the question, "what is life?" We decided that it is all about survival or as the teacher says, "So we don 't starve and die" We got to this conclusion by starting with the question, why are we in this class? My ability to apply what I know and to understand people 's motivations helped me get to this conclusion. I have gone further too now connect it to Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs. The reason I am living is to make sure that first, I don 't starve and die, then to make sure that other people don 't starve and die. To get to the top of the ladder, I must be able to biologically satisfy myself, and then be provided with safety, and a sense of
Esteem stage is about building your self esteem, confidence, and gaining achievement and respect from others. I am moving toward this stage by continuing with an education that will put me in a situation where I can help people every day by providing them with knowledge, the motivation to learn, and guidance toward self actualization. The stage of self actualization includes creativity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, and acceptance of facts. I am partly in this stage because I am coming to a point in my life that I start to think about things deeply and come up with conclusions based on what I know. For example, in this English class, we ponder the question, "what is life?" We decided that it is all about survival or as the teacher says, "So we don 't starve and die" We got to this conclusion by starting with the question, why are we in this class? My ability to apply what I know and to understand people 's motivations helped me get to this conclusion. I have gone further too now connect it to Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs. The reason I am living is to make sure that first, I don 't starve and die, then to make sure that other people don 't starve and die. To get to the top of the ladder, I must be able to biologically satisfy myself, and then be provided with safety, and a sense of