Gemma Speck
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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I've never seen this spoken about, at least when I was studying psychology.
Essentially, and I'm really drilling this point home because I think I just think it's such an important point.
It's all fine and great to self-actualize.
But what do you even do with that?
Like, can you truly be fulfilled as an accomplished individual alone in your ivory tower if you are not connected to other people?
And if you do not have empathy for other people that drives you to connect with them and give on to them and be kind to them?
That, to Maslow, was the most enlightened psychological state.
So that's one thing people don't know about Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
There is actually another special bonus layer, another thing we need to achieve.
The other thing we often get wrong is that, drumroll please, Maslow actually never displayed or articulated his hierarchy as a pyramid.
He very rarely even referred to it as a hierarchy.
According to the psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, who actually took on Maslow's unpublished work and made it his mission to expand upon these theories, this pyramid depiction that we are so familiar with
was actually created by management consultants who were trying to sell a particular interpretation of the model.
This depiction, Kaufman argues actually, he says it's done a great disservice to Maslow's original theory.
It's really simplified it.
In an article by the British Psychological Society, they speak about how the pyramid depiction suggests that our journey towards self-actualization, self-transcendence operates almost like a video game.
And it kind of leads people to assume that you level up in life by unlocking the door from one layer to the next, to the next, to the next.
Maslow's conceptualization was that each cluster of needs, your social needs, your esteem needs, your
Survival needs are interdependent and they have to be experienced simultaneously.
The hierarchy, it needs to be viewed in an integrated way.
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