Everyone is in this ‘condition of wanting to improve’ that is the pursuit of superiority.

will not cure it.’ She pressed me, ‘Why?’ I explained, ‘Look, it’s thanks to your fear of blushing that you can accept your dissatisfaction with yourself and the world around you, and with a life that isn’t going well. It’s thanks to your fear of blushing, and it’s caused by it.’

Yes. Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage. Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.

Right now, you are unable to feel really happy. This is because you have not learned to love yourself. And to try to love yourself, you are wishing to be reborn as a different person. You’re hoping to become like Y, and throw away who you are now.

We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining.’

In other words, rather than being a strict area of scholarship, Adlerian psychology is accepted as a realisation;

But those who make themselves look bigger on borrowed power are essentially living according to other people’s value systems—they

Regardless of what may have happened in the past, it is the meaning that is attributed to it that determines the way someone’s present will be.

He won’t get anywhere by not submitting anything.