#440 Putting Your Happiness First (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Putting Your Happiness First (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)
Dr. Abraham Maslow postulated the "Hierarchy of Needs." They include physiological needs, security and safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualized needs. In this talk, we explore the benefits of making self-actualized needs our primary focus and see how this positively influences our lower needs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I think for many of us doing well in life is important. If we pursue a career, we want to be good at it. |
| 0:18.0 | Perhaps we want to be a medical doctor. |
| 0:20.0 | Perhaps we want to be a lawyer. perhaps we want to be a teacher. |
| 0:23.4 | We'll pursue that career with the expectations of if we do a good job |
| 0:28.0 | that will lead to a happy life. |
| 0:30.0 | Or we may say, I'm going to do a really good job parenting. |
| 0:34.0 | I make sure I'm a great parent and then if I do my kids turn out well, |
| 0:38.0 | that will lead to a good life. |
| 0:40.0 | Or focus on the finances. |
| 0:42.0 | I'll make sure I buy home, get it paid off, retire perhaps a few years early, |
| 0:47.0 | and have money in the bank to live the good life. |
| 0:50.0 | Or for some of us, it may be just getting enough food for tonight so that we don't go hungry. |
| 0:57.0 | I think throughout history that's been a very common theme. |
| 1:00.0 | Can we have enough food to get by through the winter? |
| 1:03.6 | Or others of us feel what's important |
| 1:05.8 | is just as a physically fit, be healthy, |
| 1:09.0 | and we believe if we're healthy, |
| 1:10.6 | then we're going to be happy. |
| 1:12.3 | Or perhaps for others of us, it's finding our soulmate, |
| 1:15.6 | someone that we can love, we can enjoy, we can make love with, and create a life together |
| 1:20.7 | with when we find that person, then we'll be happy. |
| 1:25.1 | And then for many of us, I think if we can just do well in life, get the admiration of |
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