What do we want?
What are the questions we need answers to?
What is it that we want to fix?
According to Google’s autocomplete, these things are it:
When searching “ten ways to” on Google, the autocomplete function did its part.
We want to love in the first place, save water in the second place, make money in the third place and study in the fourth place.
Number five, “Ten ways to be adored when landing a lord,” is the title of Sarah MacLean’s book on how to land a husband.
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we’re wired this way:
In the first place, we have physiological needs such as air, food and water. Secondly, we want to feel safe. Thirdly, we want to feel loved and feel that we belong. Our esteem is the fourth most important factor according to Maslow. Self-actualization comes in fifth.
When comparing the Google search results with Maslow’s pyramid:
According to Google’s autocomplete our first and fifth most important needs relate to love and relationships. Water, a physiological one, came in second. Making money, which may translate to obtaining the resources we need to survive, was third on the search results. According to Maslow, survival is our primary goal. Studying, which falls under Maslow’s fifth need, self-actualization, was fourth on the Google search results.
Although this is by no means a psychological or scientific finding and merely the result of browsing the internet, it reminded me that we are all inherently emotional and have a need to love and be loved – almost as much as we need water.
