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There has been a lot of argument as to the credibility or lack thereof, for this theory. However although unintended for management theories for motivation by Maslow; in practical terms if there is a manager with a small team of deflated workers, it's a little start, a 'so basic it might just help' theory that when a manager, whose head is full of figures and responsibilities that are so far away from the likes of arguments of principals and credibilities or science versus pyscho-babble, that when that manager thinks yes that might help! I'll put a drinks vendor in the office, or i'll put a security light up just by the exit where some workers stand at night waiting to be picked up, or lets have one to ones to address peoples goals, then that is when something as incorrect or not may just make that bit of a difference to peoples spirits, maybe even just for one day, but it could just add a bit of warmth to a usually cold, mundane place. That in that sense may just turn out to be more important to those people than even whether the earth go round the sun. On that day at least!

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See the image of maslow's hierarchy in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

This image offers a much clearer intuition for what the hierarchy includes. IMO, it's the best image for the hierarchy of needs out there and should be copied to this page, probably replacing one or both of the existing ones.

Image "Simplified hierarchy of needs" (while very easy to understand) is pretty vague in defining what each tier actually contains. Image "Maslow's hierarchy of needs represented as a pyramid" is only useful for introducing the tiers of cognitive, aesthetic, and transcendence. Dlyubchik (talk) 18:52, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dlyubchik, I agree! So I have put that image in this article. I also removed the second pyramid. Why show two pyramids? Lova Falk (talk) 07:07, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RIGHTNEOUS of the original theory... this is NOT the original per MASLOW!

Simply put: Maslow's highest level of needs was ...

TOUCH WITH GOD. Which in recent years was changed to ...

"Touch with dinity" due to cultural shifts. Which then later was changed to ...

"Self-realization" a downgraded word for spiritual development which has its main process as a "a-ha moment... getting to know... become aware of...". Now, on 2025 it has gotten downgraded even further to ...

"Self-actualization" which leaves out the strive and fullfillment of the actual potential of one and very superficially orients only to "download a new version from some source" (the future A.I. totalitarian civilization). or just "keep the pace of societal changes". Being this said, I don't see an adaptation to language, nor culture anymore, but a blunt twarting of the original wise insight of Maslow's simplification of strives and drives of humanity.

This is NEGLECTION OF WISDOM to the public. Not merit of Wikipedia. Shamefull to the librarians who keep downgrading the original theories of wise people.

What do you say? Have you read in a paper book the original Maslow's pyramide and its explanations?

We are being deceived... Do we spread it further? 190.200.39.90 (talk) 23:16, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]