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What Is It That You Really Need?
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Sometimes it seems as if we never get what we want. But
sometimes when we do get what we want, we realize that
it's not what we really want. That's because our wants
don't always match our needs. The solution to this problem
is to try to understand and satisfy our real needs.
Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and
human and animal behavior. A lot of psychological
research has been done about human needs and how they
should be satisfied. Studies have shown that humans have
basic needs that must be consistently met. Studies have
also shown that there is an order of importance in which
these needs must be satisfied. An individual's basic
functional needs must be satisfied before he or she can go
on and meet other more creative and self-fulfilling needs.
Abraham Harold Maslow (1908-1970) was an important
psychologist who became famous for his studies regarding
human needs and wants. He wrote two major works,
Motivation and Personality and Toward a Psychology of
Being. Maslow stressed that basic needs must first be
satisfied before a person is able to be creative or function
independently. He created his famous hierarchy of needs
theory, which separates human needs into five layers. Each
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