World Health Organisation (WHO) defines Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as: "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons"

 Tabula rasa is a latin phrase which is translated as "smoothed or erased tablet."

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines inferiority complex as: "a basic feeling of inadequacy and insecurity, deriving from actual or imagined physical or psychological deficiency."

Inferiority complex is the feeling of being not strong enough, intelligent and inferior to others. We erroneouly equate inferiority complex to humility whereas it is synonymous to low self-esteem or self worth. The feeling of indequacy leads to many other mental and emotional conditions.

Inferiority complex makes one to compare oneself to others and end up selling oneself short or seeing oneself in a bad light.

Alfred Adler propounded the theory of inferiority complex. He believed that birth order had a significant and predictable impact in a child's personality, and their feeling of inferiority. He divided inferiority complex into two parts:

➤ Primary inferiority complex.

➤ Secondary inferiority complex.

➤ Primary inferiority complex vastly occurs in children when they are critically compared with their peers to perform better in both academic and extracurricular activities. These experiences affect the same child in their later stage of life.

➤ Secondary inferiority complex takes place in adults as a result of past experiences in their childhood. The individual might find it hard in doing easy tasks in their day to day affairs.

Women are believed to be intellectually and physically inferior to men maybe because men are exposed to far greater selective pressure than females, especially in war, competition for mates and perhaps due to the way the society is structured.

The feeling of inferiority may be brought about by upbringing, a child,  for instance, being consistently compared to siblings or children in the neighborhood. Some of the causes of inferiority complex are listed below:

➤ Economic background.

➤ Racial discrimination.

➤ Gender difference.

➤ Comparison with others.

➤ Dwelling too much on flaws.

➤ Discouragement.

➤ Depression.

➤ Lack of self confidence.

SYMPTOMS OR SIGNS OF INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

There are a great deal of signs that indicate that someone is having an inferiority complex. Some will be listed below:

➤ Feeling unworthy.

➤ Social phobia.

➤ Being self critical.

➤ Extreme anxiety.

➤ Having low opinion about yourself.

SOLUTION OR REMEDY TO INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

➤ Stop comparing your to others.

➤ Stop worrying about what others will say or what they think of you.

➤ Master your mind.

➤ Bulid your self confidence.

➤ Confront your fears.

➤ Say positive words to yourself.

➤ Surround yourself with people that will value and bring out the best in you.

➤ Believe in yourself and be yourself.

Finally, inferiority complex prevents one from fully maximizing one's potential. Choose positive self-esteem and not inferiority complex. You are special in your own way. Don't focused too much on your flaws, just work on yourself, no one on this planet is perfect, learn from your mistakes and try to be the best version of yourself.

"Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"__Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you help others you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped.Nature must pay off its debt.It is a mathematical law and life is mathematics"__G.I. Gurdjieff.

Sometimes, helping others requires sacrifices but it worth the sacrifices.

Help others even when it is crystal clear that they don't have the wherewithal to pay you back.

Payback time will surely come and nature will pay all its debt because the law of Karma is still much active.

We rise by lifting others and not by bringing others down.

Let posterity benefit from your existence.Make an impact, touch life positively.You will always be remembered for the impacts you made.

A Chinese proverb says that:"Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well. "

Most of the things we enjoy today are largely the the labour others who chose to help others.

Finally, choose to help others and you will be glad you did.

A key can't open the door,the key is not designed to open.

In the same vein,we have keys that open the door of success.

Many people have been stagnated for years because they don't have the right keys to success.They have been using wrong keys to access the door of success.

The possession of wrong keys can make a man go round the circle without succeeding.

The right keys to success are persistence, preparation, patience, determination, focus, consistent, discipline, hard work and a host of others.

The right keys to success are not gotten on a silver platter.

You might have been trying to open the door of success and your efforts in trying to open the door through the right keys seem futile.Don't be discouraged,keep trying the right keys, I know surely that the last key in the bunch of keys to the door of success will definitely open it.

    Success according to an Oxford dictionary is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.

     Success has many definitions,there are pretty much of yardsticks used to measure success,what a person counts as success may be seen as nothing compared to another person perspective of  what success is.

     No one wants to associate with failure but success.

     Success is not by an accident,no one has ever succeeded by an accident.You have to be deliberate about success,it is not by magic.

     Success gotten overnight will definitely leave over the night.

     There is nothing called the lift of success, what have is ladder of success.It is step by step, no one truely land on top automatically but through due processes.

     Success involves hard work, perseverance, sacrifice and a host of others.

     The journey to success is not always smooth,there are many setbacks one is bound to encounter if one has to be successful.

     There is never a shortcut to success, any road that seems to be a shortcut will only cut one short.

     "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same" __Colin R. Davis.

     In the final analysis,it is crystal clear that failure is the opposite of success.But it must also be noted that failure is also part of the journey to success.Therefore, don't be discouraged or afraid of failure because it is part of the journey to success.

The mind is invisible but its works are visible in a man's life.

The mind can be liken to a battle field. Many battles take place in the mind. The first place battles are won is the mind.

Battles are first won in the mind before materialising in the physical world.

Mindset is the collection of thought and beliefs that affect the way someone thinks, feels and what one does.

Some minds are preset by societal expectations and norms.

Some people's minds have been wrongly set. Their minds are set to settle for something less, that is, mediocrity. These set of people tend to equate mediocrity to humility.

     "Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it"__Steve Maraboli.

  "I truly believe in positive synergy that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great"__Russell Wilson.

You have to do some soul-searching and examine how your mind has been wrongly set, then take the bold or required actions to reset your mindset.