Xandrē Kris L.

Latog Date: January 20, 2019

Code:09166 Title: PSY 123

Dimensions for a Concept of Humanity #10

For Maslow, he believed that all of us can be self-actualizing, our human nature
carries with it a tremendous potential for being a Good Human Being. Motivation has
a strong impact for personality and the overall life of a person. If We fail to satisfy our
self-actualization needs when our lower level needs become blocke that is, when we
cannot satisfy our needs for food, safety, love and belongingness, and esteem.
Maslow concluded that true human nature is seen only in self-actualized people, and
that “there seems no intrinsic reason why everyone should not be this way. And I
believe this one since people always go with the norms of society. Apparently, every
baby has possibilities for self-actualization, but most get it which is knocked out of
them”. It all depends on how they develop as they age.

Maslow was generally optimistic and hopeful about humans, but he recognized that
people are capable of great evil and destruction, Which is only fair to assume both
sides in a personality theory. Unfortunately, most people “are doomed to wish for
what they do not have” But most will live out their lives struggling for food, safety, or
love. Most societies, Maslow believed, emphasize these lower level needs and base
their educational and political systems on an invalid concept of humanity.Because
his concept is only on a specific area of human beings. In other words, self-
actualizing people are not ordinary people with something added, but rather as
ordinary people with nothing taken away. That is, if food, safety, love, and esteem
are not taken away from people, then those people will move naturally toward self-
actualization. Overall Maslow’s take on personality was all that personality rests on
several basic assumptions regarding motivation. It would either through Self
actualization or the other way around for human to move forward towards their
progression in life.