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The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
The title is misleading and out of context doesn't describe the book particularly well. Would never pick it up personally on the title alone.
Could have been better written, but overall is a good introduction to Adler's psychology.
A lot of people will see victim blaming in this book, clutching too hard to the examples given. In my opinion, knowing some Japanese there is some mistranslation going on. Japanese doesn't translate well to English due to the language structure.
Additionally, cultural aspect affects certain things and will not make much sense without the context of living in Japanese society. For starters, Japan has a massive issue with people that become recluses (shut in, NEET, hikikkomori). Another point, individuality is looked down on compared to "servitude to the society". To Japanese people this book was probably more refreshing and understandable, than to societies that already operate using individualistic viewpoint.
Overall, this book introduced me to Adler and touched upon some philosophers, which made me interested to read on these further.
As a self-help book, it has a lot of valuable insight, BUT will be useless to people that get triggered by ideas that their life is not satisfactory due to their own choices. It is a tough pill to swallow, that after a certain point, depression and poverty becomes a choice of helplessness and a habit. A huge number of triggered people should check themselves for narcissistic traits, no joke. Inability to see own influence in the way your life unfolds is what's that book is about, among other things.
Bottom line, the message is rather positive: courage to be oneself authentically regardless of what people think.
Could have been better written, but overall is a good introduction to Adler's psychology.
A lot of people will see victim blaming in this book, clutching too hard to the examples given. In my opinion, knowing some Japanese there is some mistranslation going on. Japanese doesn't translate well to English due to the language structure.
Additionally, cultural aspect affects certain things and will not make much sense without the context of living in Japanese society. For starters, Japan has a massive issue with people that become recluses (shut in, NEET, hikikkomori). Another point, individuality is looked down on compared to "servitude to the society". To Japanese people this book was probably more refreshing and understandable, than to societies that already operate using individualistic viewpoint.
Overall, this book introduced me to Adler and touched upon some philosophers, which made me interested to read on these further.
As a self-help book, it has a lot of valuable insight, BUT will be useless to people that get triggered by ideas that their life is not satisfactory due to their own choices. It is a tough pill to swallow, that after a certain point, depression and poverty becomes a choice of helplessness and a habit. A huge number of triggered people should check themselves for narcissistic traits, no joke. Inability to see own influence in the way your life unfolds is what's that book is about, among other things.
Bottom line, the message is rather positive: courage to be oneself authentically regardless of what people think.