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Simple

“Yes, this world is astonishingly simple and life itself is, too.”

A basic premise of Adlerian psychology/philosophy is that the world is actually very simple, and that our lives are also very simple, but that all complexity arises from our relationships with other people.

If you didn’t have other people, would you need language? Would you need to divide yourself from the world?

If language only exists between two people, could this explain the bicameral mind? You need someone else to talk to in your head. But some people don’t talk in their heads.

Excerpt From: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. “The Courage to Be Disliked.” Atria, 2018-05-08. Apple Books.

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