In his landmark 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation", psychologist Abraham Maslow first posited his Hierarchy of Needs, which rather than write an entire long essay about (a task for which I'm highly unqualified), I'll just generally summarize as outlining a 4 sets of needs, each of which build on one another, that a human needs to satisfy in order to achieve self-actualization - the state one needs to ascend to in order to engage in the pursuit of bettering ourselves.
Vol. 1, Issue 1: Abraham Maslow, Businessman?
In his landmark 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation", psychologist Abraham Maslow first posited his Hierarchy of Needs, which rather than write an entire long essay about (a task for which I'm highly unqualified), I'll just generally summarize as outlining a 4 sets of needs, each of which build on one another, that a human needs to satisfy in order to achieve self-actualization - the state one needs to ascend to in order to engage in the pursuit of bettering ourselves.