“no one is capable of putting up with having feelings of inferiority for a long period of time. Feelings of inferiority are something that everyone has, but staying in that condition is too heavy to endure forever.”
Feelings of inferiority are supposed to spur us to improve ourselves, but if they’re left unresolved for too long, they just become tools with which we hurt ourselves.
Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. “The Courage to Be Disliked.” Atria, 2018-05-08. Apple Books.