Question on Inner Products and Symmetric

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Determine if the following statement is true or false: There is no inner product on $P_3(\mathbb{R})$ w.r.t. which the differentiation map $T: P_3(\mathbb{R})\to P_3(\mathbb{R})$ defined by $T(f)=f'$ is symmetric.

For this question I try to assume there is an inner product and then prove no such inner products and this is because the differentiation map is not surjective. But I am not sure if I have the correct idea.