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Basic Tools 6: Maslow on Our Daily Missions

Many of us know this chart from Abraham Maslow, a widely read and quoted psychologist. Maslow wanted everyone to get to the top – not to stop along the way.  Maslow himself said: “Self-actualization can consist of finger exercises at a piano keyboard.  Self-actualization means working to do well the thing that one wants to do (pp. 47-48, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Abraham H. Maslow, Viking, 1971).  Elsewhere, he said:  “In self-actualizing people, the work they do might better be called ‘mission,’ ‘calling,’ ‘duty,’ ‘vocation,’ in the priest’s sense” (p. 38, Maslow on Management, Abraham H. Maslow, Wiley & Sons, 1998).

Many church leaders miss Maslow’s point and settle for bringing people into the Christian community – the level of meeting one’s social needs.  These leaders allow that, occasionally, these people may be helped to grow into the level of esteem or self-respect.  They do not seem to expect members to go much higher on Maslow’s pyramid.  These church leaders need to grasp Maslow’s goal that each person is entitled to reach self-actualization.

When we help each member to discover and to live more fully each of their daily missions, we are working at the self-actualization level.  No wonder people become excited when they discover they are part of God’s mission and did not know it!

[See the diagram below.]

maslow's hierarchy of needs five stage pyramid

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

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