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Efforts For Perfection Efforts For Perfection

The document discusses key concepts from Alfred Adler's individual psychology. It summarizes his views on (1) each person's motivation to achieve their potential and strive for perfection, (2) masculine protest and striving for superiority, and (3) lifestyle and teleology as the driving force behind human behavior.

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Efforts For Perfection Efforts For Perfection

The document discusses key concepts from Alfred Adler's individual psychology. It summarizes his views on (1) each person's motivation to achieve their potential and strive for perfection, (2) masculine protest and striving for superiority, and (3) lifestyle and teleology as the driving force behind human behavior.

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` Focuses on uniqueness of each person

` Adler: called that motivating force the efforts


for perfection.

` Efforts for perfection:


perfection: the desire we all have
to fulfill our potentials, to come closer and
closer to our ideal.
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` xne of Adler's earliest phrases was masculine
protest..
protest
` In many cultures boys are often held in higher
esteem than girls are.
` In fact, males in many cultures often do have
the power, the education, and the talent and
motivation needed to do "great things," and
women do not.
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` Another personality concept:


striving for superiority.
superiority.

` Although striving for superiority does refer to


the desire to be better, it also contains the idea
that people want to be better than others,
rather than better in their own right.
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` Always present as motivating force in behavior

` Source of all human striving

` Growth results from compensation: attempts to


overcome inferior feelings
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` Adler preferred to talk about


style of life --- "lifestyle."

` Life style: how people live life, how they handle


problems and interpersonal relations.
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` Adler => motivation is a matter of moving
towards the future.

` Humans are drawn towards goals, purposes, and


ideals.

` This approach to psychology is called teleology


teleology..

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