- We all have this idea that we need to be special in someway but Adlerian psychology asks us to have the courage to be normal. - There's nothing wrong in being normal. After all the vast majority of people in the world are just that - normal. --- Why is it necessary to be special? Probably because one cannot accept one’s normal self. And it is precisely for this reason that when being especially good becomes a lost cause, one makes the huge leap to being specially bad—the opposite extreme. But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn’t everybody normal? - [[The Courage To Be Disliked]]