Anthony Robbins evangelized the six primal human needs as

1. Certainty – the need for certainty of having food and shelter. This encompasses the physical needs that a human needs to survive.
2. Variety – the need to change ones state of existence away from a state of restlessness.
3. Significance – the need to feel special and recognized.
4. Connection/Love – the need for interaction with other people. Depression is a symptom of the lack of 3 and 4.
5. Growth – the need to grow with knowledge, experience, age, and wisdom. Everyone is either growing or dying. This is different from variety in that this is the spiritual need for positive change.
6. Contribution – the need to give back to others, the satisfaction of feeling you’ve helped someone or you mean to something to someone else.

Anthony ordered these needs from physical to spiritual. As one slowly fulfill the physical needs, there is a greater desire for fulfillment. Interestingly, those living in poverty can still fulfill some of the spiritual needs without fulfilling the physical ones. This gives them the will to survive and grow. There is meaning in this ordering of needs, but it’s not a strict hierarchy.

Abraham Maslow has a different view of the fundamental human needs in which needs are arranged in a pyramid much like the food pyramid.
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