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Abraham Maslow: Hierarchy of Needs & Self-Actualisation | A Sleep Story from the Pioneers
Season 1
Episode 5
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Description
A calm, carefully researched bedtime biography of Abraham Maslow — the American psychologist who helped establish humanistic psychology and changed the way we think about motivation, human needs, growth and the possibility of becoming more fully ourselves.
Tonight’s story follows Maslow from his childhood in Brooklyn and his early experimental work with primates at the University of Wisconsin, through the intellectual world of New York, his years at Brooklyn College and Brandeis University, and the development of the ideas that would make him one of the best-known psychologists of the twentieth century.
Along the way, we explore Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualisation, deficiency and growth motivation, peak experiences and his later interest in self-transcendence. We also look beyond the famous pyramid — a diagram Maslow himself never drew — to the more flexible and complicated theory beneath it.
At the centre of Maslow’s work was a deceptively simple question: psychology had learned a great deal about what happens when human beings suffer, but what might it learn by studying health, creativity, fulfilment, meaning and human potential as well?
Told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening. There is nothing you need to remember and nowhere you need to get to. Simply close your eyes, settle in, and let the story carry you.
Sleep Stories from the Pioneers is a series of calm, research-led journeys through the lives and ideas of the people who changed how we understand ourselves.
🌙 Prefer the full extended sleep version with hours of ambient sound?
Watch Abraham Maslow on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Mqm5rHf5Rgs
🌙 Watch the full Sleep Stories from the Pioneers playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRypv-XVJDZk
🌐 Read more about Abraham Maslow:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/abraham-maslow/
☕ Support Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://ko-fi.com/pioneersofhumanbehaviour
🌐 Explore Pioneers of Human Behaviour:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/
Sleep well. 🌙
Stories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.
Tonight’s story follows Maslow from his childhood in Brooklyn and his early experimental work with primates at the University of Wisconsin, through the intellectual world of New York, his years at Brooklyn College and Brandeis University, and the development of the ideas that would make him one of the best-known psychologists of the twentieth century.
Along the way, we explore Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualisation, deficiency and growth motivation, peak experiences and his later interest in self-transcendence. We also look beyond the famous pyramid — a diagram Maslow himself never drew — to the more flexible and complicated theory beneath it.
At the centre of Maslow’s work was a deceptively simple question: psychology had learned a great deal about what happens when human beings suffer, but what might it learn by studying health, creativity, fulfilment, meaning and human potential as well?
Told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening. There is nothing you need to remember and nowhere you need to get to. Simply close your eyes, settle in, and let the story carry you.
Sleep Stories from the Pioneers is a series of calm, research-led journeys through the lives and ideas of the people who changed how we understand ourselves.
🌙 Prefer the full extended sleep version with hours of ambient sound?
Watch Abraham Maslow on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Mqm5rHf5Rgs
🌙 Watch the full Sleep Stories from the Pioneers playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRypv-XVJDZk
🌐 Read more about Abraham Maslow:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/abraham-maslow/
☕ Support Sleep Stories from the Pioneers:
https://ko-fi.com/pioneersofhumanbehaviour
🌐 Explore Pioneers of Human Behaviour:
https://pioneersofhumanbehaviour.com/
Sleep well. 🌙
Stories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.