Wednesday, 1 April 2015

April 1st: Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow, the psychologist who devised the hierarchy of human needs, was born on this date in 1908. 10 things he said:

  1. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
  2. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
  3. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
  4. If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
  5. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
  6. The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
  7. Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
  8. We fear to know the fearsome and unsavoury aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
  9. I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
  10. We may define therapy as a search for value.

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