Carefully reflect on your life to date and, using the description of needs at each level in Maslow's hierarchy, try to answer the questions below.

What level of needs satisfaction do you feel you have reached?

Is it true that in reaching this level you have satisfied all of your needs at the levels below? If not, what needs remain unsatisfied?

Assuming that needs at the next level upwards are now your motivators, what are your particular goals at this level and how does this affect your behaviour in terms of its direction, intensity and persistence?

Now try to repeat questions 1 and 3 for someone else that you know well, for example a friend or parent.