How much would you like to achieve personal growth and fulfillment? How much do you think your self-esteem is worth? How much do you value your love and belongingness needs? And what does all that have to do with TASER weapons, stun guns, pepper sprays and self defense products in general?

A lot, actually. And I can definitively back that claim up.

According to Abraham Maslow (a chief proponent of the humanistic school of human behavior), each human being has a five-levels Hierarchy of Needs that motivates his/her behavior. How well you do in life will depend on whether or not you can successfully deal with the needs of each one of your lower, most dominant levels of the hierarchy, as you move up to satisfy the needs of the higher levels. The same process keeps going on, one level at a time, until the highest level possible is reached at and a healthy state of “self-actualization” (psychological wellbeing) is produced.

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