Jim Kwik uses a bird perched in a tree to explain inferiority complex. The bird's calm comes from trusting its own wings, not the branch. Real confidence means relying on yourself, not external supports.
How do you get through inferiority complex? So I think belief in ourselves is very important. I remember I was going for a walk and I saw a bird in the tree, and this bird up there is chirping, it's happy, it's very confident. And I realized that it's calm and it's confident not because it puts its trust in the tree branch. It's calm and it's confident because it puts its trust in its own wings. And I think that's really important for us to be able to to know ourself and trust ourself, to be able to love ourselves, and also to be able to, to be ourselves.
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