Have you wondered why a person with a high paying job give it up to do something that hardly earn any income?

Or why a graduate with an engineering degree become a waiter at a fast food joint?

Or why people give huge donations to charities?

Or why some 👫👬 go all religious?

Whether you are an employer seeking to motivate your employees, a teacher trying to get your students to learn or a BBS admin trying to build your BBS, understanding human behaviour and motivation can help you to achieve your goal.

Almost anyone who has studied on managing 👬👫 will have heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Human needs and motivation is often represented by a pyramid.

A pyramid is stable because it has a big base and rises to an apex.

Only after satisfying the needs at the base will man try to satisfy needs higher up on the pyramid.

For example if you do not have enough money to buy water or food, you will not try to buy or rent a luxurious house.

Learning about Maslow's hierarchy of needs do not need to be a boring management subject.

Below is a video that has summarised it in an interesting way

This post is the preamble for a follow up post where I made a suggestion to the moderators of METV