Growth needs: The highest level of Maslow's pyramid is categorized as growth needs. Unlike deficiency needs, self-actualization needs are motivated by the desire to grow as a person and reach your ...

First, rather surprisingly, Abraham Maslow himself never created a pyramid of needs. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1908, Maslow is still regarded as one of the most influential twentieth-century ...

In the 1940s, American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed a hierarchy of human needs typically depicted as a pyramid where basic human needs (e.g., food, shelter, water) must be consistently met ...