PROJECT MOTIVATION
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0.000 HBDPROJECT MOTIVATION
<html> <p><img src="https://pp.userapi.com/c841424/v841424418/4859/6CrdhJt1i6o.jpg" width="800" height="800"/></p> <p><em>I'M ON A JOURNEY TO FIND OUT WHAT MOTIVATES PEOPLE. WHAT ARE THE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL FORCES? WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE MORE MOTIVATED THAN OTHERS? HOPEFULLY, I WILL DISCOVER SOME INTRIGUING ANSWERS</em>.</p> <p>It has taken me quite awhile to start writing this blog about motivation, which only further propels me to understand motivation; how one obtains it, why we lose it, etc. I don’t think a blog about motivation can start until I discuss Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It came from his 1943 paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” in which he discusses human needs in a pyramid format. The pyramid has five levels:</p> <p>1st – Lowest level – Physiological, basic human needs</p> <p>2nd – Safety, security of resources</p> <p>3rd – Love/Belonging, closeness</p> <p>4th – Esteem, confidence, respect</p> <p>5th – Highest – Self Actualization, morality, creativity, etc.</p> <p>The lower levels are physiological needs, these basic human needs for survival must be met first. Once these basic needs have been met one can search for fulfillment within the upper levels of the pyramid also known as the growth needs. This is where the drive for personal growth occurs. The four lower levels of the pyramid are known as the “deficiency needs.” When these needs are not met a person feels anxious and tense. Self-actualization is the highest level and can be reached only when the lower levels have been satisfied.</p> <p>I know when I feel out of balance my mind does a sort of reality check on where I stand in relation to my needs. When I feel organized and in control of my basic needs, I feel capable of reaching the levels that Maslow has described. I think in today’s modern society a great deal of us are blessed and do not need to worry about food and water, but these needs have various levels. For one, I do have access to food and water, but there is still a vast amount of choices within these two categories. For one, not all food makes me feel “good.” I certainly respond to various foods differently. So on the one hand, I might not have a problem obtaining food, but I might not be aligned, because whatever I have eaten doesn’t wholly fulfill me. Sleep is also increasingly hard to come by in today’s society, but it is a basic human need that must be met in order to function and stay healthy.</p> <p><img src="https://pp.userapi.com/c622129/v622129269/43916/ySnZ9_nGbHE.jpg" width="960" height="960"/></p> <p>In thinking about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs I think that we all strive for basic needs, but that even though those basic needs seem plain and simple they are actually more complex and harder to maintain. I think innately all of us are trying to obtain/maintain the basic level and we all are striving to achieve the other levels and wholly feel them. Perhaps these levels are intertwined and we sometimes feel that our basic needs have met and that we have achieved the 2nd and 5th level for example. But as Maslow has described we are constantly searching and compelled to have all of the levels all the time, which keeps us motivated and constantly on the move.</p> </html>