Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization and Giving Up on Dreams

All in all, do not give up dream before we put our effort in it since nurture is more important than nature.

If you blindly follow a dream you can’t accomplish you can waste your life. This is supported by the evidence found in the video Mike Rowe made for Prager University. This evidence shows that even if you have a dream and take steps to accomplish it if you can’t do that to which your dream pertains then you are just wasting your life on an unattainable goal. We can also observe if you blindly follow a dream you can’t accomplish you can waste your life in the evidence found

In 1943 Humanistic Psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed his Theory of Human Motivation. In this paper he outlines what he believes to be a humans hierarchy of needs. Maslow suggests in his journal that one must meet the needs of the previous level before moving on to meet the needs of the next one on the hierarchy. According to Maslow there are 5 tiers of human needs: physiological, security, belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. In Welch, West Virginia Jeanette and her siblings must adjust their lifestyles in order to meet their human needs according to Maslow’s hierarchy.

Dreams are destroying people one by one. During the Great Depression, which was caused by an economical breakdown, many people had developed dreams to keep themselves going. It led to bank closures, mass unemployment, homelessness, hunger and sadness. Many people lost their jobs, and were struggling to support their families. Sadly, most of the people did not accomplish any of their dreams. The dreams were just there to give them support and something to fall back on. Numerous people got tired of the false hope everyone had. They started to express their opinions about how they actually felt about dreams. The author, John Steinbeck, expresses his opinion about how dream were not possible during the time of the Great Depression throughout his book, Of Mice and Men. In that novella, no one had reached their dream because of the conflict the characters had with themselves and other people.

I believe it is not worth it to dream because usually it doesn’t happen anyway. In the book We Beat the Streets. Rameck, Sampson and George followed their dreams, but their friends did not. They got swallowed up by the tough streets, they had dreams too, but did they ever come true? The answer is NO. We can also see this in this particular video, Mere Doyle tried her best to sing on a show called The Voice and people always told her she was good, but when the judges heard her they said she was just awful. She worked really hard and they just turned her away. The evidence shows that it is not worth it to dream because people push to achieve their dream really hard and fail very fast if they follow their dreams.

They say that fear kills more dreams than failure ever does. In my case, yes, this is true. But with time and effort, my fear of never being enough has become just a minor setback and not my whole life. Doing my best for myself and making myself happy is what my life will soon consist

For example, when my grandmother was young, she used to dream about being surrounded by a loving family. She was an orphan. She often tells me stories about how she would lie awake at night dreaming about just that. Many kids in her orphanage used to tell her that none of them were ever going to have a life like that “Why would we?” they said, “can you not see not even our parents wanted us!” Despite all the harsh words, she kept on dreaming and overcame all her obstacles and has reached her goal. Even though your goals might seem impossible, if you dream big you might get just that.

We have all failed several times, and sometimes we have given up. One of the most famous chocolate makers in history failed many times, but he never gave up on his dream.

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” Estee Lauder. This quote really sums up the reason we shouldn’t dream because dreams make us believe in things that won’t ever happen unless a person actually goes out tries to accomplish what they want to do in life. In addition sometimes when people try to accomplish their dreams it leads to terrible outcomes such as the Great Leap Forward, The 5 Year Plans, and the Holocaust as some examples.Also, it results in many people overestimate what they can do which leads to terrible outcomes.This all shows often when people try to dream it often leads to outcomes that very undesirable.

Most people from an early age have a dream; yet often people give up on them and most of the time around middle school or late elementary school. It is the prime time where everyone gets discouraged by bullying and the realization that life is tough that dawns in the child’s mind around this time. The discouraging factor could also be due to an unsupportive family, which is shown primarily by the short stories “Everything Will Be Okay” by James Howe and “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant. The main characters in each story have a conflict over a desire. In “Everything Will Be Okay” Our main character loses the argument in the end and the kitten he desperately wanted to keep the cat, but he learns the invaluable lesson not to give up on your dreams.

A major part of life is to pursue dreams. Life would almost be pointless if people did not have ambitions, people wouldn’t have a reason to get out of bed if they did not have a dream that they want to achieve. Anne Laurel Cartier, the author of the short story “Leaving the iron lung,” specifically looks at how having a dream can affect one’s life. Carter uses conflicting characters, character transformation, and the setting to illustrate to be content with life one needs to follow their dream, to commit and sacrifice to it if they want achieve it.

Dreams, for some people rather then being significant events or goals to be reached in

Abraham Maslow theorized the concept of self-actualization which is the term used to describe the state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their highest potentials in their own unique way. Maslow’s theory includes sublevels that must be achieved before reaching self-actualization. In this paper, I will explain how each of his previous levels have affected my life, and give an idea of when I may hope to achieve self-actualization. Self-actualization is the term that Abraham Maslow used to describe the state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their highest potentials in their own unique way. The personal reflections accommodate to my perspective of the Maslow’s Theory.

People often feel that it is impossible to fulfill their dreams. As shown in the Great Depression of the 1930s, the pressure of achieving goals when faced with economic conflict makes dreams even harder to reach. If dreams aren't fulfilled one often falls under a melancholy state; or state of depression. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes both portray, by using imagery, that if a person delays his dreams, the chances of his vision becoming a reality are greatly reduced.

Moreover, the economics of the society urge this trend to be more typical. The depression of the economics has changed the behavior of people. For example, some of the people may plan to move out and start a new life. However, the economics factor forced him to stop the plan and live with his parent in order to look after them. There is no doubt that it is hard to move out or even buy a new houses, therefore, they have to postpone their dream plan and face the reality. Therefore, they rather choose to stay in never-never land than grow up to be an adult and face those countless questions and challenges.