Alfred Adler Psychology and Success![Alfred Adler Psychology and Success Alfred Adler Psychology and Success](images/adler.jpg)
Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Austrian psychologist (pictured right) who first introduced the idea of an inferiority
complex.
An associate of Sigmund
Freud (pictured right below) in Vienna.
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His most famous book is...
The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1927).
What did he teach us?
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1. Inferiority complex
Everyone has a feeling of inferiority, particularly in childhood, when you are motivated to copy the
achievements of adults.
This inferiority creates:
- self-confidence (from continual achievement), or
- an inferiority complex (caused by feelings of failure).
2. Superiority complex
People with a superiority complex constantly strive towards achieving goals.
But success never gives them confidence, only the desire to seek more goals and
external recognition.
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3. Importance of self-esteem and compensation
Self-esteem is vital to self-confidence, positive thinking and success.
So people with physical disabilities are:
- defeated by them, or
- motivated to overcome problems and achieve greater success.
Key quote on life
To be human is to feel inferior
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