#Maslow's hierarchy of needs

[todays-xkcd]

The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.

Maslow's Pyramid [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball leading White Hat and Megan to a giant pyramid modelled after Maslow's hierarchy of needs, with each tier labelled after its need on the pyramid, and a comment next to it in the comic.]

Self actualization: [X] Honestly questioning my life choices here

Esteem: [X] People seem less impressed by it than I hoped

Belonging and Love: [X] Friends are worried about me

Safety: [Checkmark] Highly defensible

Physiological needs: [X] Provides basic shelter but no food, water, heat, et cetera.

Caption: I built Maslow's pyramid thing, but it's a total ripoff - it's only providing 20% of my needs.

[podcastwizard]

actually i'm only like this right now because it's been too long since i've been to a natural history museum. i gotta go look at bones

[self-care-club]

Adapted from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

What is a need? (Adapted from this article)

It’s important to be connected to our needs because true needs are always in our best long term interest. Our needs for air, food, water, shelter, community, companionship, autonomy, respect, etc. are all in our best long term interest to fulfill.

Wants, on the other hand, don’t necessarily correlate with long term well-being. In fact, many wants, when fulfilled, actually contribute to our long term detriment.

Put another way: needs refer to the conditions that must be met in order for us to live a balanced life; whereas wants are strategies we use to fulfill our needs. This is why needs inherently map to long term well-being, while wants don’t have such a correlation. Wants can either contribute to our long-term wellbeing, or they contribute to our long-term detriment. In order for our wants to be good for us in the long-term, we must understand which needs they map back to.

Ideally, we should be connected to our needs first, and our wants second. When we become disconnected from our needs due to past trauma, we rely too heavily on our wants to guide our decision making. The disconnection from our needs increases the likelihood that we will attach to wants that lead to our long-term detriment. 

[mediocrgatsby]

[avalon-of-babylon]

Wolfenstein fulfills all of the human hierarchical needs

Maslow was ahead of his time.

They were like "Maslow what the fuck is a mech?" but he just smiled and said "you'll see"

[amymbona]

[dadvans]

i'm a simple guy, i just want tommy to descend into a plane flying at low altitude from a helicopter, yes, but i also want buck to pull him aside before he goes up and tell him to be safe before sucking his face clean off his skull

[alys-starworld]

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

[musicalmoritz]

I have been an evil ex. I’ve been Scott Pilgrim. I recommend self-actualization

[creatingnikki]

when you're feeling disregulated, you do not need people. even though in that moment there is this restlessness and everything feels ugh and you feel like life sucks and there is no saving anything, what you really need is what you need when you were a kid and you got cranky because you were physically tired:

you either need to eat, sleep, throw up, or cry. or all of them.

that's what you really need. sometimes the disquiet, the void, the not feeling okay? it doesn't have to be existential. it just has to be listening to your body. and I know, I know, you don't really know how to do that, you feel like you disassociate so brilliantly from your own body.

which is why: eat or throw up. cry and then sleep. or eat and then sleep. or throw up and then sleep. whatever combination works.

and then when you wake up, make yourself some nimbu pani (lemon water) and add some pudina (mint) leaves if you have them at home and tell your mother you love her.

and that boy on your mind? just go work, now that you feel better. because he doesn't have you on his mind anyway. no matter what he says. actions>words, right?

[dellpickle76]

[susienjoyerofgirls]

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[strwbryfeels]

[atomicradiogirl]

[showerthoughtsofagoldengoose]

taking a psychology class and my autism made me make this

basically the way its supposed to work if ur unfamiliar is that the needs that arent met in the current tier don’t allow you to meet the next. So here, he gives up on the current goals he has as different needs aren’t met- when relationship needs are no longer satisfied, Eridan fixates in relationships, when safety and security needs are becoming the problem, he gives up on relationships (listed as love and belonging here) and fixates on the tier labeled safety and security on this chart. Then he dies, the end.

What I find interesting here is he never meets the point of being able to focus on his self actualization needs, which lines up with his character and his inability to listen to advice. It never is a point of emphasis for Eridan, because his other needs aren’t met.