or that I don’t intimidate them—such aspects can become strong points.
Of course, this is a subjective interpretation. You could even say it’s an arbitrary assumption.
However, there is one good thing about subjectivity: It allows you to make your own choice.
Precisely because I am leaving it to subjectivity, the choice to view my height as either an advantage or disadvantage is left open to me.
YOUTH: The argument that you can choose a new lifestyle? PHILOSOPHER: That’s right.
We cannot alter objective facts. But subjective interpretations can be altered as much as one likes.
And we are inhabitants of a subjective world. We talked about this at the very beginning, right?
YOUTH: Yes; the well water that’s sixty degrees.
PHILOSOPHER: Now, remember the German word for a feeling of inferiority, Minderwertigkeitsgefühl.
As I mentioned a moment ago, “feeling of inferiority” is a term that has to do with one’s value judgment of oneself.
So what on earth could this value be? Okay, take diamonds, for instance, which are traded at a high value.
Or currency. We find particular values for these things and say that one carat is this much, that prices are such and such.
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