Book: The Courage to be Disliked

The Courage to be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
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The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.

The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a philosophy that’s profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.

The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to Be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you.

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Ugh, this book took... FOREVER for me to read. I was expecting this to be a non-fiction dry text, honestly, I was totally prepared for that, and had my brain formatted to adapt to that. But then, the contents are being presented as if in a fiction book, a young man conversing with a philosopher.

It was even dryer than a non-fiction, and the young man was absolutely grating. There was a part where the young man got all mad and went on a rant, but it was a child style rant, absolutely refusing to listen. But then, by the end of the book, he's totally done a 180 and just meekly accepted.

As for the actual contents on Adlerian teachings, I wouldn't be so pompous as to say "I knew it already" but that I've unknowingly been adapting to some viewpoints along those lines for a while. Or, to say it absolutely crudely, I have no more f*cks to give and as long as I am not hurting people and I can live with a clear conscience on my actions and decisions, then who cares what others think of me.