ryan_beacham 's review for:

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

4.0

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The first thing that grabbed my attention regarding this book was the layout; a dialogue between an old philosopher and a struggling youth. The book had many thought-provoking topics of conversation and often left me thinking about these ideas long after I had put the book down. A personal favourite topic being the idea of rejecting cause and effect and how you cannot blame your past for the current situation you are in, you need to have the courage to change your situation and lifestyle yourself. Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga delve deeply into the concept of Adlerian psychology and certain ideas will perhaps rub people the wrong way and have you shaking your head in disagreement, but then again... that's what all great debates should do.