Thank you for sharing your opinion.

I simply point out that the common invocation of Maslow's "pyramid" is a misunderstanding of Maslow's intellectual framework, and of the precursors on which it is based.

Frankly, "be your best self" is such an oft-repeated suggestion here that I felt presenting an alternative view would be useful. And, in a sense, somewhat in the Nietzschean vein, in that it also critiques a dominant paradigm.