An "inferiority complex," and its accompanying de­terioration in performance, can be made to order in the psychological laboratory. All you need to do is to set up a "norm" or "average," then convince your subject he does not measure up. A psychologist wanted to find out how feelings of inferiority affected ability to solve problems. He gave his students a set of routine tests. "But then he solemnly announced that the average person could com­plete the test in about one-fifth the time it would really take. When in the course of the test a bell would ring, in­dicating that the 'average man's time' was up, some of the brightest subjects became very jittery and incompetent in­deed, thinking themselves to be morons." ("What's On Your Mind?", Science Digest, Feb. 1952.)
Stop measuring yourself against "their" standards. You are not "them" and can never measure up. Neither can "they" measure up to yours—nor should they. Once you see this simple, rather self-evident truth, accept it and be­lieve it, your inferior feelings will vanish.
Dr. Norton L. Williams, psychiatrist, addressing a medi­cal convention, said recently that modern man's anxiety and insecurity stemmed from a lack of "self-realization," and that inner security can only be found "in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God." He also said that self-realization is gained by "a simple belief in one's own uniqueness as a human being, a sense of deep and wide awareness of all people and all things and a feeling of constructive influencing of others through one's own personality."