Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslowwas an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Alliant International University, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms." A Review of General Psychology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 April 1908
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.