Maslow and Mensa: "Maslow and Mensa
by Mark S. Hutchenreuther

The Premise
Around March of 1994, Janice Johnson asked me if I would give a talk for her Local Officer Training sessions at the New England Annual Gathering. Because of my frequent creative involvement in Mensa, she suggested a topic of 'How to Bring Out the Creativity in Your Members.' I immediately accepted, then set out to figure out what I would talk about.
I had been working on another topic at the time, called 'The Singles Curmudgeon.' In that talk, I briefly covered Maslow's hierarchy and my own 'Hutch's Hierarchy of Relationships.' I quickly realized that much of my talk should be about Maslow and his famous hierarchy.
Maslow's hierarchy is variously described as having five, six, or seven layers. Fortunately, the lower four layers and the top layer are common to all three schemes. If a sixth layer is included, it is placed between Self-Esteem Needs and Self-Actualization Needs, and it is called Self-Fulfillment Needs. In the seven layer scheme, Self-Fulfillment is divided into two layers, Cognitive Needs, and Aesthetic Needs. I will discuss the five-layer hierarchy for a number of reasons: it is simpler, it is sufficient, and it is what Maslow himself used in his last book."
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--- HARD TO THINK ABOUT GOING TO SPACE IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT SUPPER. - LRK -