Contribution is one of our basic human needs

Another Sunday and another chance to make exciting plans for the upcoming week. At Fundition, there is never a dull moment. We are always doing something to make your experience with crowdfunding better. We are continuing to be busy with updates, improvements, growth, and yet always find time for you and your needs. We are at your service on our e-mail and discord channels where you can ask us anything. Today, we will turn the tables. We are going to be the ones who will be asking questions. Are you ready to answer them?


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Today we will be talking about the psychology. Scared yet? Don't be. It will be a fun little ride into your mind and we are sure you will appreciate it. We are often chasing the answers about the Universe and neglecting to contemplate and evaluate our behavior. Today will be the day you learn something about yourself.

"Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings."
Nelson Mandela

According to an American psychologist Abraham Maslow, we all have 5 basic needs that we need to meet. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology that tells us which need takes precedence over others and how exactly are they met.

A pyramid hierarchy...

In this pyramid, those needs at the bottom need to be met first. We first have to be satisfied with our need for food, water, air, sleep (physiological needs) before we can go on to fulfill the needs for security, employment, health (safety needs) and so on. We are climbing the pyramid and once one level is fulfilled the next level up is what motivates us. It all starts with a need for physical survival and ends with meeting the fullest potential as a human being.

PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS - biological requirements for human survival
SAFETY NEEDS -protection, stability, freedom from fear
SOCIAL BELONGING - being part of a group with family, friends
ESTEEM - achievement and reputation
SELF-ACTUALIZATION - personal potential and self-fulfillment

Where is CONTRIBUTION in all of this, you wonder? In two places actually. It is partly in our need for esteem where we desire respect from others and want to feel dignified and like we have achieved something. It is also in the mysterious six need. In his later years, Abraham Maslow proposed an additional need and called it transcendence. We will achieve our fullest realization in giving to something beyond ourselves. The most inclusive and holistic levels of human consciousness are behaviors and relations to human beings in general, other species, nature, and to the cosmos itself. An altruistic approach to life.


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The order of needs is not rigid

Even though some of our needs mostly take precedence over others, they are still flexible. They are based on individual differences and external circumstances. Our behavior is often simultaneously determined by more than one basic need and we can be in positions where even the highest needs in that pyramid are pushing us before those that are below them.

Our need to contribute to society transforms us from self-centered beings into those that are open and caring of the world we live in. We need to feel useful and like we are serving others so we donate, help and contribute in order to achieve a feeling like we have left our mark on the world.

Every human has a built-in need
to help another human.

We are compassionate and emphatic. We care for others and have always been bothered with injustice. No matter who you ask, he or she will answer you that people all over the world should be happy, healthy and have all their needs met. No one should be hungry, sick or poor. We all share that opinion but some of us are actually doing something about it. If we all have a need for contribution, why are some contributing and some are not?

Some are better at silencing their need to contribute than others.

We do not want you to silence your need for contribution. It is one of those needs that will not only make you feel better but it will help others. By enriching yourself with it, the world will be enriched. When have you last time made yourself proud, satisfied and useful by helping others? Do you remember how good that feeling was? Imagine feeling like that every day. You can with Fundition.

Fundition can be your method
of contributing to the world.

Fundition focuses on projects that are about innovation, charity, education, art and personal causes. All of them are worthy of your time and support. All of them will have an impact on the world and are waiting for you to join them with your donations. Have you visited fundition.io today? Have you shared some of your love and satisfied your need for contribution yet? You still have a chance to do that. Your simple act of kindness can change someone's life. What are you waiting for? See you at fundition.io

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