The Blueprint You Created as a Child Lifestyle is Adler’s term for the unique pattern of beliefs, goals, and strategies you develop in early childhood to navigate the world and secure a sense of significance. It is not personality in the trait sense, extroversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism. It is the underlying logic that guides how you approach problems, relationships, and challenges. Your lifestyle is the answer you created as a child to the question: how do I survive and thrive in this family, in this world, given my specific strengths and weaknesses? Once formed, this pattern becomes mostly unconscious and operates...