
The Courage to Be Disliked
The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Courage to Be Disliked
The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
About this book
"Marie Kondo, but for your brain." ā HelloGiggles
"Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend." āMarc Andreessen, venture capitalist and founder of Andreessen Horowitz 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 twentieth-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 teachingsānow you can too.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Authorsā Note
- Introduction
- The First Night: Deny Trauma
- The Second Night: All Problems Are Interpersonal Relationship Problems
- The Third Night: Discard Other Peopleās Tasks
- The Fourth Night: Where the Center of the World Is
- The Fifth Night: To Live in Earnest in the Here and Now
- Afterword
- About the Author
- Copyright