Because you’ll always be worried about other people looking at you and fear their judgment, and you are repressing your “I-ness.”
It might come as a surprise to you, but almost none of my clients who come for counseling are selfish people.
Rather, they are suffering trying to meet the expectations of other people, the expectations of their parents and teachers.
So, in a good way, they can’t behave in a self-centered fashion. YOUTH: So I should be selfish?
PHILOSOPHER: Do not behave without regard for others.
To understand this, it is necessary to understand the idea in Adlerian psychology known as “separation of tasks.”
YOUTH: Separation of tasks? That’s a new term. Let’s hear about it.
The youth’s irritation had reached its peak. Deny the desire for recognition?
Don’t satisfy other people’s expectations? Live in a more self-centered way? What on earth was this philosopher saying?
Isn’t the desire for recognition itself people’s greatest motivator for associating with each other and going about the formation of society?
The youth wondered, What if this “separation of tasks” idea doesn’t win me over?
I won’t be able to accept this man, or Adler for that matter, for the rest of my life.
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