Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — reflects Nature’s Connection for Humanity’s Future?

Zsolt Hermann
3 min readMay 1, 2020

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A new story from my dear friend, Ernest Itzkovitch from Toronto:

Abraham Harold Maslow — was one of my best and most important people whose heritage inspired me during my Human Relations/HR studies and teaching my students & our/last generation my favorite topic of “ Integral Education”.

It may take some time until Humanity will realize and get used to the “Brand New World” that Nature shows us via Corona. As a Quality Engineer, my experience shows that “The Best People Bring The Best Results” and the Human Factor is #1 in Quality. The reason is simple — that most smartest and computerized machine — still needs an SW programmer, same like Nature to Humanity.

Maslow encouraged — to “look for and develop the Best Parts of Human Positive Qualities’ for the benefit of the business while even in 2020 — some of the leading businesses still look at and treat their employees as a “bag of symptoms”, means highlight and focus on the negative and hide the positive.

There were Top Experts in Social Relations and Management, like Kurt Lewin and Douglas McGregor — who focused on building strong and positive relations among groups and education of people (workforce) for quality, environment, and health & safety.

But this is not the topic that I would like to talk about.

My question is — Why Nature “Introduced Corona” to us and bring humanity to start from Zero/ bottom step in Maslow’s well-known triangle/hierarchy — namely food and shelter?

Well, my Dear Friends — Nature’s goal is clear — to Connect Humanity in One Thought of Survival — care about others first?
It doesn’t seem very popular in our material world, where we are competing with others to show and reach to be Top #1 always.
However, the major change in our mindset (thoughts) and hearts (feelings) — to take care of others first, as Nature wants.

And how exactly we know what Nature wants from us? The internet is full of predictions etc. — some of them scary or hopeful.
Yep, same as usual, we/Humanity are reaching the critical mass and decision point in the center of our consensus/connection —
Do we understand what Nature is telling us? Are we making the right decisions and reactions? Who is the priority — We or Me?

I am aware that my questions are sometimes uncomfortable, but we look in the eyes of each other and facing the truth/painful facts.

Humanity’s future depends only on our positive attitude toward each other creating good and positive relations, no other choice.

Corona explained to us everything: Prior Corona — we had open skies and physical connections among each other and the world.
Nature, i.e. environment suffered big time — global warming, air pollution, waste and overuse, and abuse of natural resources.

On March 11, 2020, we wake up — and WHO told Humanity — that “ We Have a Problem”, not an individual or local problem,
but a Global, Massive and Controversial Problem that Humanity still struggling from it — and what else in Nature’s Plans ahead?

From today, May 1, 2020, and onwards — the world is slowly starting to recover from Corona by gradually lifting the tough restrictions.
Nature signals us to understand and prepare the change in our Thoughts and Hearts — elevate above the Pre-Corona Era and
Welcome to the Future Era, which means practice the old slogan of “ Love your neighbor as yourself” or “Mutual Responsibility” !!!

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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