The pyramid is the hierarchy of needs that we're talking about. And it's usually depicted as a pyramid where you have an order of needs that must be met before one can become everything they're capable of becoming. So he did have a list of needs, a hierarchy. But he has never drew them in the form of a pyramid. His theory was very developmental. He made it very clear that we are constantly in this dynamic of moving two steps forward and one step back. We don't have the weight to start self actualizing until everything else is done until we check all the boxes.

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