Needs, Actions, Behavior (Nab): Needs Drive Behavior

By Brown Ogwuma

Clearly, needs are embedded in life and have core implications for and in it. Those needs are anchored on the base onethe need to self-preserve and live better and prolong life, hopefully. From its source, life did not come automatically, with the basic resource or others emanating from it to live and hold life together. The implication of this is that the humans and other living organisms are prompted and driven, innately and otherwise, to take steps and actions to meet their needs.

Some of the actions human and primate animals have taken to meet some of their needs may have added to the swirling whirlwind of and in this life; its improper to perceive this as the origin of evil in life. It is certainly not. Still, humans and other living organisms should not be held accountable for originating evil. Rather, could the source and the originator of life be objectively traced out and deciphered as an entity as opposed to a nonentity, accountability for lifes swirling whirlwind should be hung there. On the other hand, humans should be seen as having done, and continuing to do, a lot to help living life better in different ways, including pure and applied science, social and other humanistic ways. Credits should be given where and to whom due.

Brown Ogwuma, a clinical social worker, has worked in the human services field for about twenty-five years. He appreciates philosophy and original thinking. He shares his practical glimpse at life that he hopes will encourage others to take a realistic approach to the way they live their own lives. In his continuous reflections that stem from the complexities and convoluted nature of life, Ogwuma beams light into the core need and related ones in life. He also discusses his ideas in this work that he hopes gets his readers, audience, and others to dissect and look at life more practically and beyond the ordinary. Doing so, he assesses there will be a more meaningful shift from the mostly conventional way of seeing life and things in it, to more meaningful and less self-blaming ways, saving some unnecessarily depleted energy that should be used to serve the living need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499081565

Brown Ogwuma

Brown Ogwuma is a clinical social worker who has worked in the human services field for twenty years. In addition to a master’s degree in social work and a clinical licensure, he holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA and is the author of Playing God and Root That Binds and a coauthor of The Culture Wars within. An avid community organizer, Ogwuma resides with his wife in Peekskill, New York.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1    Needs, Actions, Behavior—NAB

Chapter 2    Coping Mechanisms

Chapter 3    Good and Evil: The Standoff

Chapter 4    Empathy

Preface

Needs are embedded in life and have core implications for it. Also, needs come on different levels and multitude of bits that have to be met to sustain and live life better. Those needs also endure for life. Endurance for life is on three or so different levels—for individual humans on one level; for subhuman animal primates on another; for non-animal living things like plants and trees on that level, and for universal life and living overall.

For relevant and proper context,

A need is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food; or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-esteem. (http://en.Wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Need=Need&oldid=5826300)

At the base level of needs is the core, umbrella/overarching one, beneath which and from where others stem and are anchored—the need to self-preserve. This is captured succinctly by this saying: Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Because a need is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life, most living organisms are innately and intrinsically driven to engage in a number of and different activities to self-preserve and sustain life.

Although the innate and inherent actions of living organisms to meet their needs to live may have added to the swirling whirlwind of and in this life, it’s improper to perceive this as the origin of evil in life. It is certainly not. The fact that there is a basic need to preserve self by engaging in and taking actions that include hunting for, obtaining, and eating food and scouring for and finding shelter for safety, shield from the elements and for comfort, etc., speaks to behavior patterns. A behavior pattern could and does vary with different people and/or individuals. In a universe where interactions and interrelating with others have evolved beyond instinctive actions to self-preserve, certain actions and varying behaviors have been found to exacerbate physical and mental health needs and issues. Yes, a sense of decency has since faced gruesome challenges. Still, humans and other living organisms should not be held accountable for originating evil.

On one level, the base, core, and umbrella/overarching need could be to blame. Because, expressing it here again, needs do drive behavior. So, had