Maslow's hierarchy of needs provides one with a framework for understanding human needs. Do you think the theory stays valid even today to understand human motivation and personal development? Why/ Why not? Share with relevant examples from your personal/ academic/ professional lives.
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Answer:
Yes, Maslow's hierarchy of needs still stands relevant today.
Explanation:
Speaking as an adult and drawing experience from my own life and carefully noticing other's as well, I have come to realise that the difference in the quality of life; in the presence and absence of money, depends heavily on the well-nurturance of a human being like Maslow proposed it should have been.
As infants born in the world with no initial capacity to verbalise our needs, we depend heavily on the first caregivers around us to interpret our actions and cries in the best explanations possible. Their generous or non-generous interpretations; based on their own nourishment during childhood, becomes the base of our conscience which Freud called as "Superego". As adults, due to time, we forget about this initial "care-giving" but conscience remembers and reminds us. So, as children if we were neglected repeatedly or our needs were made to feel like too much or if we were made to feel like a burden; contrastingly in adulthood, rejection for a romantic proposal will feel like a tragedy than a disappointment because it would be embedded deep inside us that we are not worthy of any love or attention and hence are always well-deserving of rejection and unimplied humiliation; instead of jumping on a more benign explanation that the other person truly didn't find us to be a true match.