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What is Self-Transcendence?
Self-Transcendence is a top of the pyramid of human need hierarchy by Abraham Maslow, a psychologist that researched about the transformation of human need. At first, Maslow divided the pyramid into 5 stages.
The 5 stages of human need are:
– Psychological (survival) need: food, water, sex, excretion, homeostasis.
– Security (safety) need: security in morality, financial, carrier.
– Love (belonging) need: relationship, connection, belong to someone.
– Esteem (respect) need: give and get respect as an individual, achievement.
– Self-actualization (fullest potential) need: realize personal power, problem solving, lack of prejudice, growth mindset.
The more you evolve, the more you increase the quality of your reality. Reality is malleable, you become what you understand. That’s the important of self-growth and self-love. Each stage of evolution has a different need. That’s why as you grow, your priority transformed, so does your fulfillment.
But then, Maslow noticed that everything are about ego fulfilment, and there is something beyond mental aspect. So he added revision to his pyramid above self-actualization, which is Self-Transcendence.
