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Esteem generally includes a person's self-awareness of their own personality and their need to feel accomplished. Becoming a project manager could easily fill that need, depending on that individual's goals in life and what they were doing prior to that job. Esteem is certainly a part of becoming self-actualized, the highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy. Once a person has reached this pinnacle, they feel like they have fulfilled all of their goals/dreams and have reached the peak of their talents and potential.
- Steven