The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness 2018 Edition by Ichiro Kishimi, ISBN-13: 978-1501197277
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- Publisher: Atria Books; First Edition (May 8, 2018)
- Language: English
- 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1501197274
- ISBN-13: 978-1501197277
“Marie Kondo, but for your brain.” —HelloGiggles
“Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend.” —Marc Andreessen
Reading this book could change your life.
The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be.
Is happiness something you choose for yourself? The Courage to Be Disliked presents a simple and straightforward answer. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, this book follows an illuminating dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. Over the course of five conversations, the philosopher helps his student to understand how each of us is able to determine the direction of our own life, free from the shackles of past traumas and the expectations of others.
Rich in wisdom, The Courage to Be Disliked will guide you through the concepts of self-forgiveness, self-care, and mind decluttering. It is a deeply liberating way of thinking, allowing you to develop the courage to change and ignore the limitations that you might be placing on yourself. This plainspoken and profoundly moving book unlocks the power within you to find lasting happiness and be the person you truly want to be. Millions have already benefited from its teachings, now you can too.
Table of Contents:
Cover
Authors’ Note
Introduction
The First Night: Deny Trauma
Chapter 1: The Unknown Third Giant
Chapter 2: Why People Can Change
Chapter 3: Trauma Does Not Exist
Chapter 4: People Fabricate Anger
Chapter 5: How to Live Without Being Controlled by the Past
Chapter 6: Socrates and Adler
Chapter 7: Are You Okay Just As You Are?
Chapter 8: Unhappiness Is Something You Choose for Yourself
Chapter 9: People Always Choose Not to Change
Chapter 10: Your Life Is Decided Here and Now
The Second Night: All Problems Are Interpersonal Relationship Problems
Chapter 11: Why You Dislike Yourself
Chapter 12: All Problems Are Interpersonal Relationship Problems
Chapter 13: Feelings of Inferiority Are Subjective Assumptions
Chapter 14: An Inferiority Complex Is an Excuse
Chapter 15: Braggarts Have Feelings of Inferiority
Chapter 16: Life Is Not a Competition
Chapter 17: You’re the Only One Worrying About Your Appearance
Chapter 18: From Power Struggle to Revenge
Chapter 19: Admitting Fault Is Not Defeat
Chapter 20: Overcoming the Tasks That Face You in Life
Chapter 21: Red String and Rigid Chains
Chapter 22: Don’t Fall for the “Life-Lie”
Chapter 23: From the Psychology of Possession to the Psychology of Practice
The Third Night: Discard Other People’s Tasks
Chapter 24: Deny the Desire for Recognition
Chapter 25: Do Not Live to Satisfy the Expectations of Others
Chapter 26: How to Separate Tasks
Chapter 27: Discard Other People’s Tasks
Chapter 28: How to Rid Yourself of Interpersonal Relationship Problems
Chapter 29: Cut the Gordian Knot
Chapter 30: Desire for Recognition Makes You Unfree
Chapter 31: What Real Freedom Is
Chapter 32: You Hold the Cards to Interpersonal Relationships
The Fourth Night: Where the Center of the World Is
Chapter 33: Individual Psychology and Holism
Chapter 34: The Goal of Interpersonal Relationships Is a Feeling of Community
Chapter 35: Why Am I Only Interested In Myself?
Chapter 36: You Are Not the Center of the World
Chapter 37: Listen to the Voice of a Larger Community
Chapter 38: Do Not Rebuke or Praise
Chapter 39: The Encouragement Approach
Chapter 40: How to Feel You Have Value
Chapter 41: Exist in the Present
Chapter 42: People Cannot Make Proper Use of Self
The Fifth Night: To Live in Earnest in the Here and Now
Chapter 43: Excessive Self-Consciousness Stifles the Self
Chapter 44: Not Self-Affirmation—Self-Acceptance
Chapter 45: The Difference Between Trust and Confidence
Chapter 46: The Essence of Work Is a Contribution to the Common Good
Chapter 47: Young People Walk Ahead of Adults
Chapter 48: Workaholism Is a Life-Lie
Chapter 49: You Can Be Happy Now
Chapter 50: Two Paths Traveled by Those Wanting to Be “Special Beings”
Chapter 51: The Courage to Be Normal
Chapter 52: Life Is a Series of Moments
Chapter 53: Live Like You’re Dancing
Chapter 54: Shine a Light on the Here and Now
Chapter 55: The Greatest Life-Lie
Chapter 56: Give Meaning to Seemingly Meaningless Life
Afterword
Reading Group Guide
About the Authors
Copyright
Ichiro Kishimi was born in Kyoto, where he currently resides. He writes and lectures on Adlerian psychology and provides counseling for youths in psychiatric clinics as a certified counselor and consultant for the Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology. He is the translator, into Japanese, of selected writings by Alfred Adler—The Science of Living and Problems of Neurosis—and he is the author of Introduction to Adlerian Psychology, in addition to numerous other books.
Fumitake Koga is an award-winning professional writer and author. He has released numerous bestselling works of business-related and general non-fiction. He encountered Adlerian psychology in his late twenties and was deeply affected by its conventional wisdom–defying ideas. Thereafter, Koga made numerous visits to Ichiro Kishimi in Kyoto, gleaned from him the essence of Adlerian psychology, and took down the notes for the classical “dialogue format” method of Greek philosophy that is used in this book.
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