Psychology: inferiority complex vs superiority complex

 

INTRODUCTION

Friends, we humans have this tendency to compare ourselves with others. Comparing ourselves with other people defines our social life to a great extent.

For example, a student who has interest in music. And wants to increase his performance. That's why he compares his performance with those who are basically considered role models of the music industry. This lets him know what level he is at today and how much more improvement he needs. Now here comparison has a very important role in evaluating the performance of that singer. But many times, we start comparing ourselves to others so much that then we forget that what is the difference between comparison and embarrassment. The habit of humiliating ourselves continuously is hollowing us out from within. Friends, when we compare ourselves with a person whose ability, performance or credibility is more than us, then negative feelings start triggering in us and we feel very low.

when we compare ourselves with a person who is in a useless condition than us in his life, then our self-esteem and confidence level start increasing. And we feel very high.
And when both these conditions reach the extreme level, then gradually psychological disorders start developing inside us. Which we know as superiority complex and inferiority complex.
And one by one we are going to discuss these two topics in this article.
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Inferiority complex

Inferiority complex is a psychological disorder in which we always underestimate ourselves from others. We always start comparing ourselves with those people who are doing very well in their life. Due to this, the motivation inside us completely ends. Our self-esteem, confidence level and self-respect go down at all. The level of negativity inside us starts increasing constantly. In this condition, our brain always starts looking at things from a negative perspective.

Psychologist Alfred Adler says that the inferiority complex is a subjective assumption. We just assume ourselves that I am looser. Which is just a negative perspective of you to see yourself.

Adler has divided the inferiority complex into two stages.
1. Primary stage.
2. Secondary stage.

Now I am going to describe these two to you through an example.
Situation is that there is a person who is illiterate. Now he has two perspectives to look at this situation. The first is that he should tell himself that "I am not very well educated, so I will have to work harder than other people to get success."
Now his second perspective is that "I am not educated, so I can never be successful." If you are from the first category, then you are in the primary stage, which is a common thing. Infact, it pushes your limits and plays a positive role in your growth. But if you are among the second category people, then you are in the secondary stage.
Which is a serious condition. In this stage, you avoid putting any realistic effort in any work. Your perspective becomes absolutely negative. You do not dare to take any positive steps.
Now it has become a matter of inferiority complex. Now comes the superiority complex which is just the opposite. But wait. Now some of you must be thinking that a superiority complex will definitely be a good thing. But friends this is not true.
Psychologist "Alfred Adler" says that superiority complex is a mental state in which people try to prove themselves as superior. Not because they were superior in actuality. Rather, they just show off to hide their inferior personality. They behave in front of others with overconfidence, whereas in reality they are completely hollow from inside.
There is an extreme version of the Superiority complex which is called narcissism in psychology. In this condition people just have their own angel, they don't care about other people. A narcissist person prefers to have people around who flatter him.
A narcissist person is too egoistic, arrogant, and too aggressive, they try to dominate themselves everywhere. No matter they are right or wrong. Which is neither good for them nor for those around them.

Solution:

Friends, we have to understand that Life is not competition. When we use the word superiority. So, we unknowingly support the competition.
which is not correct. It is enough for you that you just keep moving forward without competing with anyone. Make yourself better than yesterday. If you have to compete, then just do it with yourself.
We are all unique in ourselves. We all have different experiences; we all have our own story. Not all of us have exactly the same social conditioning. If someone is from a poor background then he is taught how to adjust in the least resources, and if someone is from a rich background then he is taught how to manage his resources. So, stop comparing yourself to others.

You have to accept the fact that nothing is perfect, everything has some flaws. All you need is to accept your weakness and improve it. We are not inferior or superior to other, but we all are human beings, and we all are equal. 

I hope it's helps. thank you very much.