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Lesson 12 - The Needs That Drive Us All

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I. What do you need?

II. Power, good or bad?

III. Fun, important or not?


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I.I. What do you What do you need?need?

food & clothing

love

friendship

wealth

fun

self-fulfillment

powersafety

independence respect freedomcourage

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What do you think are/are not the basic needs of human beings?

Please choose from the following list or add more to the list.

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Besides survival needs, if you are to choose only one more basic need, which will you choose?

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food & clothing

love

friendship

wealth

fun

self-fulfillment

power

safety

independence

respect

freedom

courage…


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Quotations: Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s n

eed, but not every man’s greed.

(Mahatma Gandhi) The individual's most vital need is to prove his w

orth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

(Eric Hoffer)




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Quotations:

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. (August Wilson)

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents. (Edward Teller) The end of Part I.



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II.II. Power, good Power, good or bad?or bad?


What can you associate with power?

How do you understand power?

How could one gain power? How would one use it?


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Is power a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion?

Do you want to be powerful?

Does our culture encourage people to strive for power? Give examples.


Quotations

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Quotations:

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

(Ralph Ellison)

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

(Thomas Jefferson)




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Quotations:

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

(Liz Smith)

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

(Jean de la Bruye)




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Quotations:

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

(Edmund Burke)



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Do you find fun an important part in your life?

How do you analyze the relationship between learning and fun?

Do you have any experience of getting fun from boredom?


III. Fun, important III. Fun, important or not?or not?

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III. Fun, important III. Fun, important or not?or not?

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

(Eileen Caddy) Children want to learn to the degree that they are

unable to distinguish learning from fun. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.

(Glenn Doman)

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.


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