"Dr. Alfred Adler, the great psychologist,
had an experience when he was a young boy. He got off to a bad start learning
arithmetic, so his teacher became convinced that Adler was stupid when it came
to mathematics. The teacher told his parents that the boy was dumb, and also
told them not to expect much from him. His parents were convinced that the
teacher's evaluation was correct.
"Therefore, Adler passively accepted the assessment that they had made of
his abilities. And his grades in math proved that they were correct. However,
one day he had a sudden flash of insight and thought he saw how to work a
problem the teacher had put on the board that none of the other pupils could
solve. He raised his hand and announced that he would like to do the problem.
The students, and even the teacher, laughed at this. He became indignant. He
strode to the blackboard and solved the problem perfectly much to everyone's
amazement. And at that moment he realized that he could understand mathematics.
He had been handed an unreal, negative self-evaluation, and he had believed it
and performed on the basis of that assessment.
"Many of us have done the very same thing. Someone has told us that our
abilities are limited, or that our dreams are unreachable. We have accepted
that without question, and we go through life unhappy and unfulfilled. We
become estranged from ourselves simply because we believe what others people
have told us about ourselves."
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