Perfectionism Can Be Your Advantage
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Adler and the Inferiority Complex
Stephen Pinker: I would generally agree with him that people are at their core good. But the funny thing is that we also assume that other people are bad, he says. And it's the same reason why Freud's vision was more marketable than Adler's. He believes all of us have an inferiority complex and perfectionism is a compensatory measure for it because we don't feel connected to each other at all times.
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