Gemma Speck
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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That is, each cluster of needs rests upon each other, not in a consecutive way, but in like a circular way.
The other thing this pyramid depiction doesn't explain well is how people can be at different stages without every single stage before it being entirely 100% fulfilled.
For example, people who don't necessarily feel like they have great social support, who are maybe really lonely people,
aren't connected to a family unit or even to a community can still go on and make amazing art and care for others and reach those peaks of self-actualization and self-transcendence, even though their social needs from the outside don't seem to be being met.
People who may not have enough food to eat, who are struggling with poverty, still experience deep meaning, still have respect for themselves.
You can kind of see how this pyramid idea gets really tricky in that it gatekeeps
higher more purposeful functioning for only the rich healthy the happy the loved and we know that's not the case and maslow didn't want us to think that that was the case that you can only achieve this high high point if everything is going right in your life and if like you are a certain type of individual who does not suffer has not suffered has all their needs uh available to them
I think that's a big issue I take with Maslow's hierarchy is, again, that it can gatekeep certain, you know, higher, again, I said higher, but, you know, certain seemingly more enlightened forms of functioning for people who have it all together or who have had life.
handed to them in a way that was already all together.
And, you know, if you're experiencing poverty, if you're lonely, well, you haven't achieved that layer.
So there's no possible way that you can be self-actualized.
There's no possible way that you can self-transcend and care for others when we kind of know that's not true.
Well, we don't kind of know, like we do know.
So that's another kind of myth or misconception about Maslow's hierarchy.
The very fact that it is not a
Let's now turn to the next misconception, the next hidden part of history to do with Maslow's theory, and perhaps the least reported of them all.
Maslow was, in fact, not the original creator of this theory of human flourishing.
He wasn't even the second.
He wasn't even the third.
He just gave it a
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