hierarchy of needs

Well, I still say I've got the top level covered without having the other levels. I don't see why that's not possible.

Maslow discovered that most self-actualized people do not have the same sense of humor as the average person. For example: they do not laugh at hostile humor (hurting someone to laugh), superiority humor (laughing at someone’s short comings), or authority-rebellion humor (laughing at unfunny, smutty jokes.

What do they laugh at then?

5020 wrote:What do they laugh at then?

I'd laugh if the answer is absurdist and/or self-director humor. It would mean that I've actually been self-actualized this whole time without realizing it.

EDIT: okay, I can't spell apparently

5020 wrote:Maslow discovered that most self-actualized people do not have the same sense of humor as the average person. For example: they do not laugh at hostile humor (hurting someone to laugh), superiority humor (laughing at someone’s short comings), or authority-rebellion humor (laughing at unfunny, smutty jokes.

What do they laugh at then?

Terrance and Phillip! FART!!!!

What about irony? or is that laughing at peoples short comings too? your more likly to become self- actualized through not trying to become self actualized...

i don't think we should classify sex as an essential thing in life - you will die if you stop breathing, you will starve without food and so on, however nothing will happen to you if you don't have sex. I am quite familiar with that model, we studied it extensively in social psychology, the only minor change that i would make, would be combining self-esteem and belonging together, because i think they are interdependent.