Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

If you can share what is Maslow's hierarchy of needs,

to let it don't understand it fully, what does that process and framework look like,

and then what is your Kaufman's sail belt in order for us to learn what that is too?

So a lot of people might not have heard of like Mazel's hierarchy of needs, but surely they've seen the meme on the internet.

It's a pyramid, you know, with various levels of needs that one needs to fulfill in order to be able to focus your attention

on self-actualization, which is becoming all that you're uniquely capable of becoming.

So the needs for connection, the needs for self-esteem, the need for safety, all these

things that clearly if you're preoccupied, if your mind's preoccupied, you're hungry, right,

like you're not focused on self-actualization, you know, so it's contextual as well throughout the course of our day. You know, if you feel very lonely, um, your, uh, your mind is preoccupied with, uh, with the deprivation of your loneliness, you know, if you don't feel like you're getting any respect, you know, your whole consciousness is directed towards respect to me and you're kind of in part onto the world, you know, you want the world to kind of bend to your will in a way. Where is respect on that, on that chain of needs? In Mazel's original, it was the highest up before self-actualization. So we want, we need to, we can't eat. The only thing we're thinking about is food. Yes. If we're sick, the only thing we're thinking about is getting healthy. If we have nowhere to sleep, the only thing we're thinking about is shelter. Yeah. And then once we have that foundation, it's the next level of me. Loneliness, then loneliness, social connection, and then esteem. Then esteem, which is respect. Respecting yourself and then getting respect from others. Yes, so he had both of those forms of esteem he talked about.

Okay, and the next one is...

Well, the belonging and connection, the need to belong, the need to, you know, make connections

with others, and then esteem was higher in his original model.

Then you self-actualized.

And what does self-actualization mean? He didn't like the you self-actualize. And what does self-actualization mean?

He didn't like the term self-actualization.

I found in an unpublished essay, I found in a footnote, he said,

I hate that damn word self-actualization.

Really? Oh my God.

He never said the words.

Towards the end of his life, he started to think of it more.

He preferred the term fully human.

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