I found myself thinking about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943) today (in relation to making a living from being a creative and performing artist – eek!) and a Google search came up with this diagram which I’m sure many of you are familiar with:

The source, www.simplypsychology.org, stated that Maslow later on added three new categories of needs – cognitive, aesthetic and transcendent – so I went Googling again and found this diagram at http://worlduni.com/extras/human_behavior.htm…

Worthy additions, especially for bloggers, artists and DIY YouTube-clip makers!

Simply Psychology’s post has a helpful list of the qualities of self-actualized people, which hopefully they won’t mind me re-posting here:

Characteristics of self-actualized people

Although we are all, theoretically, capable of self-actualizing, most of us will not do so, or only to a limited degree. Maslow (1970) estimated that only two percent of people will reach the state of self actualization. He was particularly…