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“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.” – Alfred Adler<\/a><\/p>\n Adler was one of the big three:\u00a0 Jung, Freud, and Adler,\u00a0though his name does not ring a bell in the larger public mind anymore.\u00a0 If Freud was about sex and death, Jung about archetypes and the collective unconscious, Adler was about power.\u00a0 He was a birth order guy and believed that how power dynamics worked out in relationships and\u00a0within our own psyche determined our mental health.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just checked up on my knowledge about\u00a0 Adler and discovered a fascinating twist to his point of view.\u00a0 He believed that each of develops a more or less submerged final goal, a goal that creates significance for us.\u00a0 This goal compensates for feeling of inferiority.\u00a0 Don’t know about you, but the feeling I was here for something special, nurtured by mom and dad and reinforced by teachers and friends has cost me big time in life’s journey.\u00a0 Like alcoholism this striving wastes time and pushes us away from the Tao.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n At this point I am a recovering alcoholic and I feel good about my now 32 years of sobriety, though not overconfident. It’s still a day at a time in reality.\u00a0 I have stripped away most of the vestiges of fame seeking, break through idea hopes and now seem to have little left in the way of the old drivers that Adler names.\u00a0 Not none, it’s difficult to let go of the vague, perhaps magical idea that someday, somewhere things will change, but I try to put it context if it arises and then to let it go.<\/p>\n Note from Mary that she’s working away on the revision of her dissertation.\u00a0 Her advisor is on her case, she says.\u00a0 Oh, boy, am I glad I’m not doing that.<\/p>\n Kate and I went through our calendar through July.\u00a0 Next month will be busy for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 26 bar steep rise\u00a0 30.39 2mph ENE windchill 26 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Gibbous Moon of Winds “Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.” – Alfred Adler Adler was one of the big three:\u00a0 Jung, Freud, and Adler,\u00a0though his name does not ring a bell in the larger public mind anymore.\u00a0 If Freud was … Continue reading Are You Still Waiting for Your Special Purpose?<\/span>