With all of his teachings and theories, our quote of the dayfrom Adler highlights his belief that you don't need to be defined by your lot in life, but rather you determine how your situations affect you.
Adler died of a heart attack in 1937, and he was publishing books and articles up until then. And in one of his books, he wrote today’s quote about choosing how something impacts you and not the other way around.
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Quote of the Day by Alfred Adler
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Adler wrote this line in his book What Life Could Mean to You, published in 1933 (sometimes the title is written as What Life Should Mean to You). As the novel's description says, this is one of his most popular books, and it gives “a complete guide to his work on personal development with a practical approach to self-understanding.”
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With that example, Adler shares his point that they won’t change their actions if their minds and perspectives on their situations don’t change. He writes, “No experience is a cause of success or failure,” adding that any trauma we went through isn’t what we suffer from, per se, but rather “we make out of them what suits our purposes.”
It’s important to point out that we get into dangerous territory when we start thinking that we can “choose happiness” or positivity to overcome mental health issues or disorders, such as PTSD. I’m not saying that Adler is saying this, exactly, but this quote could be interpreted in that vein. However, there is a way to look at this quote without doing that.
You also get to choose how good a person you are and how you help others (this, of course, doesn't count for people with personality disorders or others who have less control over themselves). Easier said than done, especially if other issues or something like PTSD are involved, but there is something powerful about being told that a situation doesn’t have to define you. You get to choose what that means to you and your life.
More Quotes from Alfred Adler
“To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.”“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”“This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.”“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”Up Next:
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