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80 Examples of Needs

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Needs are the essential conditions that allow people to thrive. This includes physical, social, cognitive and cultural needs whereby people thrive if they are able to live a cultured life of great depth and experience. This begins in childhood with needs such as protection, parental bonding, play and socialization and progresses to higher level needs such as creative expression, freedom and pursuit of happiness. The following are common examples of needs.
Adventure
Aesthetic experiences
Belonging
Clean air
Clean environment
Clean water
Clothing
Cognitive stimulation
Community
Confidence
Cooperation
Creative expression
Cultural experiences
Cultured living
Digital access
Dignity
Doing good
Economic opportunity
Economic stability
Emotional bonds
Empathy
Exercise
Faith
Family
Food & nutrition
Freedom of movement
Freedom of speech
Freedom of thought & conscience
Friends
Giving
Gratitude
Growth
Health
Healthcare
Heritage and sense of connection to the past
Hygiene
Identity
Income
Independence & autonomy
Information
Introspection
Knowledge
Language
Learning opportunities
Love
Meaning & values
Meaningful work
Media access
Nature experiences
Norms
Opportunities to gain experience
Parental care
Personal sovereignty
Physical safety
Play
Purpose
Pursuit of curiosity
Pursuit of happiness
Reason
Relatedness
Reproduction
Respect
Rights & freedoms
Risk taking
Roles & responsibilities
Sanitation
Savings & wealth
Security
Self-expression
Self-fulfillment
Self-respect
Sense & sensation
Shelter
Sleep & rest
Social connectedness
Social stability
Socialization
Spirituality
Thinking
Trust
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