The vast majority of people go through life without having a clear idea of where we want to go, but sooner or later we must take a course.
It is in our childhood when most of us form an idea about what we want to do when we are adults. However, the changes of the human being, family problems, social conditions and other factors, throughout our existence, alter or affirm our initial desires. The project life undergoes various changes as we age.
The child
The child is father to the adult, figuratively, in accordance with Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, authors of the book The new masculinity. In other words, the experience of childhood is the most important throughout adult life. However, these authors argue that regardless of that experience in every human being there is already a mental archetype that will lead you along your life.
According to them, there are only four archetypes, king, warrior, magician and lover. These internal energies will cause certain attitudes toward life throughout our existence. Apparently we have the four archetypes, but one of them will predominate. The warrior is the one that dominates the momentum of the feat of the hero. The magician, is more interested in the occult, knowledge, one that dominates a science. The lover, the search for God. And the king, to balance these energies govern.
Experience
However, to Sheldon White and Barbara Notkin, the childhood experience is crucial. Indeed, according to his work; Children paths of discovery, the child is like a sponge absorbed all. The child discovers the world from their experience. A hostile or benevolent behavior can be changed forever. Clinton Rossiter, Author of The Political Theory of American Conservatism, thinks that poverty is the best school.
There is a Mexican folk saying that coincides with the thought of Rossiter the best school is the school of life. Therefore, an educator must be wary of teaching. Such as Freire created his method of generating word. Which is used for literacy and is grounded in the daily experience of the various social groups. Consequently, the university would also be much more effective if it were his previous experience of students and their sociological coordinates.
The self
While some remain motivated by our primary desire others act trying to satisfy higher needs, as Maslow. For him the act to satisfy human needs. First satisfy the instinctive desires such as hunger, thirst, cold, heat, sex. Later we meet the desire for security. Then the social acceptance and then satisfy the need of self-esteem. Finally, once all above, we seek self-realization.
Maslow’s theory seems to explain much of why many people who were poor in childhood are rich in their adult lives. And in this, seems to agree with him William J. Stanton In his Foundations of Marketing. Because for Stanton, demand will depend not only on income but on family history. According to him, the nouveaux riches demanding cars, luxury, travel, homes while the rich works of philanthropy claim ancestry.
The significance
Theories can do much to explain human behavior but definitely there will always be gaps. Well, how explain the work of Ghandi or Mother Teresa of Calcutta, how Einstein explained the desire to find an explanation of the universe?, Is the momentum of Alexander the Great?, Is the feat of Columbus?, Scott’s desire to be the first to conquer the South Pole? What makes the great characters are unique and constantly motivated?
It seems that the archetypes of Douglas Moore and explained with much certainty these planes of the human mind. Transcendence is one of the strongest motivations to which man can aspire. When the brothers Grimm wrote Snow White or when Newton and Leibniz discovered the Differential Calculus, perhaps unwittingly drew a sketch of the depths of the human soul, much as the rest of the supermen, auxiliandonos with light in the search for meaning of life.