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The human mind and brain are complex and have parallel processes running at the same time, so many different motivations from different levels of Maslow's pyramid usually occur at the same time.

Maslow was clear about speaking of these levels and their satisfaction in terms such as " relative " and " general " and " primarily ", and says that the human organism is " dominated " by a certain need, rather than saying that the individual is " only " focused on a certain need at any given time.

So Maslow acknowledges that many different levels of motivation are likely to be going on in a human all at once.

His focus in discussing the hierarchy was to identify the basic types of motivations, and the order that they generally progress as lower needs are reasonably well met.