Tiffany+Motivation



Consider using information you need about Abraham Maslow, and about his Hierarchy of needs. Consider the needs below. 1. Where would they fit into his hierarchy and why? Physiological: food, water, air, sunlight, and heat are the necessities for humans to survive. Procreation is also physiological because it is one of the natural habit of human. In order for the world to run, procreation is needed. Safety: car, procreation, shelter, money. For safety, human needs to have luxuries in order to fulfill one's need. Car, shelter, and money is needed in order to follow the rules that are set (because without these, physiological needs are not met) and procreation is needed not to suppress against human instinct. love/belonging: self respect, friendship, and love. In order to love others, trusting, believing and loving yourself is necessary. Esteem: self respect, support, love, acceptance. I believe what goes around, comes around. In order to respect for others, people need to respect yourself first. Self Actualization: self respect, support, acceptance, realizing potential. Contrary to the description above, in order to love yourself, one needs to support others around them.

2. Can any one of those fit in more than one area? If so, where else could they fit and why? Yes, as shown in my hierarchy of needs graph, many ideas overlap each other. For example, procreation fits into both safety and physiological. Procreation is a natural action. Without it, it will not be safe for the nature to run naturally.

3. Generate three other needs that you believe are important. Those needs must fit in two or more categories of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. (Note: Your responses to the above should be short and concise. Make reference to an example to support your reason for placing the need where you did.) Education: education gives broader chances financially, socially, and individually (category: safety, esteem) Patience/endurance: persevering oneself advances person to higher level of development (category: self actualization, love/belonging). career: majors, jobs, profession. A person needs to have something that he/she is expert in. Instead of knowing little bits of everything, focusing and majoring in one area gives better chances to level up one's hierarchy (category: safety, love/belonging/ self actualization)

1. Are we, as some might say, motivated by a desire to save our off-spring?

2. Must there always be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good? There should be some sort of reward for doing good. At times, there are moments when one expects for something after finishing up a kind or successful deed in life. However, this reward cannot be said 'intrinsic'. Looking at the lives of adults and social/financial issues, what you do is NOT what you receive. Even though a person work so hard, the reward they receive will not meet anyone's expectation.

3. Mr. Otis once said, "That having integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching." If this is so, and no one knows when we have done good, would you still do good? When a person thinks of the good action as a voluntary activity, they will not feel the need to be rewarded for it. However, when it's not, the person will expect some sort of reward or at least expect people to notice what he/she have done to be respected.

4. "Delayed reciprocal altruism", seems like a gamble - back to game theory, any way. Does this seem to make sense to you. That is that we act out of a desire to have what we have done being done to us? In one of the Korean old fables, there is a story where a magpie repay the kindness that Heung-boo provided for the injured magpie. I believe that people, also, repay favors that others provided for them. Contrastingly, people repay ingratitude that others committed. What goes around, comes around!

5. Are we ever being truly "selfless" when committing an act of altruism? I believe that committing an act of altruism is being in some way, being self-less. In this society, when person is