Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

In reality little Abraham was born at a very early age. As a baby he self-actualized with the best of them mastering the skills of crawling, smiling and eventually walking. He was a very happy toddler with exceptional self esteem and bursts of self-actualization. It was these lower level needs where he struggled. His connection to his parents was lukewarm at best.

Yet he struggles with self-esteem, love and belonging.

His mother was a narcissist, the tension outside the home. permeated home.  Maslow and other young people with his background were struggled to overcome acts of racism and ethnic prejudice in the attempt to establish an idealistic world based on widespread education and economic justice.  Tension outside his home was also felt within it, as he rarely got along with his mother, and eventually developed a strong revulsion towards her.

Ironically, While jogging, Maslow suffered a severe heart attack and died on June 8, 1970, at the age of 62 in Menlo Park, California.

And there he was was doing his self actualizing while demoting himself down the pyramid of life.

Abraham Maslow went for a run filling omnipresent level needs that would venture into self actualization Sometimes a run is simply a run

To build self esteem.