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The five inborn hungers: An overlooked explanation of everyday human behaviour

Speaker at Public Health Conferences - Alphonsus Obayuwana
Triple-H Project LLC, United States
Title : The five inborn hungers: An overlooked explanation of everyday human behaviour

Abstract:

Theologians, philosophers, psychologists, and psychiatrists have debated for eons about the purpose of human life without reaching any conclusive agreement. This made Sigmoid Freud to write, “The question of purpose of life has been raised countless of times and it has never received a satisfactory answer, I therefore suggest that we turn to the less ambitious question of what men show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives”. To do exactly the latter led this PI and his colleagues to the discovery of the five most compelling human desires or hungers, which are:
           Hunger for food and personal comfort.
           Hunger for information and answers.
           Hunger for intimacy and trusted companion.
           Hunger for inclusion and acknowledgement.
           Hunger for continuity and certainty.
This discovery was made possible by observing and recording the primal actions of human infants from the moment of birth, during infancy, early childhood, and beyond. By probing deeply and analyzing what these hungers do to humans and for humans, it revealed several previously overlooked bodies of information that finally explain man’s everyday behavior, throughout the entire human life cycle. This keynote presentation is a report on the methodology used to generate these findings from the moment of birth, throughout infancy, early and late childhood, at puberty, during adolescence, adulthood, old age, and at the time of death. The results and data that emerged, the final opinions of the subject matter experts, and the ultimate overall conclusions reached, are presented. This presentation ends with the Inborn Hunger Theory.

Biography:

Alphonsus Obayuwana is a physician scientist, Titan Literary Award-winning author, founder, and CEO of the Triple-H Project, USA. An entity that trains and certifies happiness coaches. He was on the teaching faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Maryland College of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and lastly at the University of Toledo before his retirement in 2020. Dr. Obayuwana is also a retired Major in the US Air Force Reserve. and has been a contributor to Psychology Today. His latest book, The Happiness Formula, was named One of the Five Must Read Books of 2024, by Forbes.

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