Application of the Hierarchy of Needs
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Application of the hierarchy of needs
Fundamental/survival:
To survive one needs to eat, drink, and their body needs to accomplish basic physical functions to live. Therefore, to get to one self actualization, which I believe is one of the ultimate ways of being; they have to live long enough to grow into themselves (at least until their twenties) so they have to go through that stage. I believe an human being can be in pain, with a disease in which they are not free from pain but they live with it, and they reach self actualization. The proper temperature only matter if it is life threatening.
Long term survival:
I believe most people who live without safety and security have very hard lives. A person who has a very hard life is completely exposed to psychological problems. Many people who have psychological problems cannot reach self actualization for the simple reason that their problems overpower and get in the way of their life. They cannot find themselves completely because of that. As for protection, an individual might develop psychological problems because of the lack of protection but is it less harmful than living without safety and security. I believe it is more possible to be psychologically healthy to live without protection than live without safety and security. I believe that one can overcome all these, but it takes a very strong human being, and that is not human nature. I completely believe that living in a economic disaster con be complicated but it can be overcome or lived with. You can be completely poor but self actualized.
Psychological:
I completely agree with this stage. One must experience love at an early age to know what love is and how to express it and feel it. Life revolves around love. One must experience closeness to another individual to comprehend human behavior, thus one knows what relationships are. A person cannot live alone forever and be self actualized because they do not know anything but themselves, they are not enlightened. I believe introverts cannot really accomplish self actualization because they themselves have low self esteem. Therefore belonging,