10/02/2026
Read this! What a great example of organ inferiority as a motor for striving and female protest in the Adlerian sense.
"I was very tiny as a child. My mother says that this is how I became so confident: I only learnt to read at six, but since I looked like a four-year-old, adults thought I was really smart. I was also what you then called a tomboy, and would I guess now be called gender-fluid. I wanted to be a boy, I dressed like a boy, and cut my hair short; all my friends were boys. At adolescence, both things changed: I grew enough to be counted at the short end of “normal-sized”, and I became comfortable being a girl. But I retained both my self-confidence and the desire to never let my gender define what I would or could do."
Read more about Esther Duflo's life and journey to becoming a laureate in economic sciences: https://bit.ly/3GdxoLN
