What Makes People Click?

The Route To Happiness - An Example

Basic/Fundamental Needs:

• Physiological Needs – Food, drink, oxygen, temperature regulation, elimination, rest, activity, sex.

• Safety Needs – Protection from potentially dangerous objects or situations, e.g. the elements, physical illness. The threat to both physical and psychological.

If people can’t pass this point, how can they achieve this?…

• Love and Belongingness – receiving and giving love, affection trust and acceptance. Affiliating, being part of a group (friends, work, family).

Without love and belongingness how can people achieve…

• Esteem Needs – The esteem and respect of others and self-esteem and self-respect – a sense, therefore, of competence.

Without feelings of worth, competence and confidence, how can people reach the next level?

• Cognitive Needs – Knowledge and understanding, curiosity, exploration, need for meaning and predictability.

If cognitive needs are not met or achieved…. This cannot be met:

• Aesthetic Needs – Beauty – in art and nature – symmetry, balance, order, form.

So without feeling comfortable to explore the beauty of life and a sense of balance… this cannot be achieved…

• Self Actualisation – Realizing your full potential, “becoming everything one is capable of becoming’ – to be the best that you can be. **Happiness**

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