still has some feelings of inferiority? Even the businessman who amasses enormous wealth,
the peerless beauty who is the envy of all, and the Olympic gold medalist—every one of them would be plagued by feelings of inferiority.
Well, that’s how it seems to me. How should I think about this?
PHILOSOPHER: Adler recognizes that feelings of inferiority are something everyone has. There’s nothing bad about feelings of inferiority themselves.
YOUTH: So why do people have them in the first place?
PHILOSOPHER: It’s probably necessary to understand this in a certain order. First of all, people enter this world as helpless beings.
And people have the universal desire to escape from that helpless state. Adler called this the “pursuit of superiority.”
YOUTH: Pursuit of superiority? PHILOSOPHER: This is something you could think of as simply “hoping to improve” or “pursuing an ideal state.”
For instance, a toddler learns to steady himself on both legs. He has the universal desire to learn language and to improve.
And all the advancements of science throughout human history are due to this “pursuit of superiority,” too.
YOUTH: Okay. And then? PHILOSOPHER: The counterpart of this is the feeling of inferiority.
Everyone is in this “condition of wanting to improve” that is the pursuit of superiority.
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