Physiological Needs: Food, Sleep, Sex, Water, Air to breathe, satisfactory temperature, etc.
Safety Needs: Safety of life, property, job, etc.
Social Needs: belongingness, love, etc.
Esteem Needs: self-respect, self-confidence, recognition, etc.
Self-actualization Needs: sense of unique achievement, desire to become what one is capable of becoming, sense of competence to control environmental factors, etc.
If you look at this need hierarchy, you will find that people’s ultimate need is to become what they are capable of becoming. Seneca has said: Man’s vital state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born.
Let us see the purpose for which a man is born. Eric Butterworth has said: You are born to achieve, to realize your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.
In the light of above discussion, our earlier meaning of success requires definition.
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