Stop Pleasing Others! "The Courage to Be Disliked" and Finding True Happiness

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The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is a self-help book published in 2018 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hLwSbb

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The book takes the form of a dialogue between a philosopher and a young man over five nights, as they discuss the ideas of Alfred Adler. The book explores Adler's theories as a means to a liberating approach to happiness where each person has the ability to live a happy life without being controlled by the past or worrying about the future. The authors use the dialogue format to help the reader understand and consider Adlerian psychology, which can be difficult to accept at fi ... 

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Self-acceptanceTeleologySeparation of TasksCommunity FeelingContribution to OthersThe Courage to Be DislikedLife TasksLife-LieHorizontal RelationshipsHere and Now