Goal Achievement Takeaway #2 From Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs #goals #shorts

The second thing is that as you move up the pyramid, there is— there are diminishing returns. Now, diminished returns are still returns, but there's a lot of surface area in those Basic Needs because they're actually a little bit easier to acquire in the modern age. We don't have too much difficulty. If you're on this call and have the technology and resources to watch this, you're probably not really struggling too much with securing clean air, fresh water, adequate nutrition, a safe environment to live in. And those things are easier to acquire than, say, a loving intimate relationship where you have a strong sense of identity and belonging and that sort of thing. And certainly it's much harder to optimize personal and professional performance at the top. So as you move up the pyramid, the law of diminished returns comes into play. It gets harder to achieve the things as you go up the pyramid.