Gemma Speck
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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And the hierarchy of needs, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, was formed from his major work that he published, which was a theory of human motivation.
Even if you don't know what I'm talking about by name, you have seen an image of this.
You have seen an image of this in your career counselor's office, in a science textbook, on Instagram.
It's usually represented as a pyramid with five layers, and it's built on a simple idea.
Before you can focus on becoming your fullest self, you need to satisfy the most fundamental human needs, which sit at the base of the pyramid, and then you work your way up.
Now, this theory was developed by Abraham Maslow.
He's an American psychologist, and he first kind of put this together in the 1940s.
Maslow famously practiced a form of psychology called humanistic psychology, which prioritizes the push towards truth.
human flourishing and self-realization and this hierarchy is like the cornerstone of this specific psychological discipline because it suggests that needs at the bottom of the pyramid whilst seemingly basic are essential for survival and they're also not examined enough by psychologists and it basically instructed the academic the psychological community like if you want to
If you want your patients, if you want humanity to thrive and to be fulfilled, we need to pay more attention to things like emotional security, financial security, just physical security, having food, having water.
And he basically, he used this theory that he
he came up with to describe a lot of things and a lot of problems he saw in psychology and with humanity, like the need to address poverty in order to achieve greater psychological and intellectual thriving in society, why we can't be creative or answer deep questions about life until we're out of a place of survival and why emotional security matters just as much as physical safety or financial security matters.
And he also, I don't think this was his intention, but it's now very much used to explain how the pathway to becoming your best self.
If you cannot picture the pyramid at this stage, I would highly recommend do a quick Google search of what it looks like, because this episode will make a lot more sense with that visual in mind.
But let me walk you through each layer, starting from the very bottom.
So
At the base of Maslow's pyramid are our physiological needs.
Food, water, sleep, shelter, basic things required to keep us alive.
These are our core human survival needs.
Once we have those, the theory goes that we can then build our safety needs.
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