His Childhood
Adler did not have an easy life. He felt great rejection by his mother. During his early childhood he felt inadequate due to his size and appearance and those made him want to try harder to be popular and accepted by his peers as well as his family. These were things expressed by Adler. “He also said that he felt unattractive and small growing up so he worked very hard to be popular in school to compensate for the rejection he felt from his family life. It would appear that the development of this theory is directly connected to these certain events in Adler’s life. This would explain his theory on inferiority.”Adler’s theory focuses on inferiority feelings, which he saw as a normal condition of all people and as a source of all human striving. Adler had much time to consider this as in his early years of life he suffered from inferiority feelings. However, instead of turning them into something negative, he used them to develop his theory of the human mind. He decided that “Rather than being considered a sign of weakness or abnormality, inferiority feelings can be the wellspring of creativity.Thus, out of Adler’s childhood experiences.