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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

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

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You know what happens to most psychology and science books that are over 10 years old in an academic library? They usually get weeded and tossed. Because new research and evidence in those fields changes the collective understanding so much that - even in 10 years! - it makes much of the older literature fairly useless unless you're critically engaging with it or using it for historical comparison.

This isn't a self-help book, it's an introductory, self-aggrandizing pop-philosophy book about a psychological theory that is one hundred years old. 

I'm not saying there's no merit in still discussing older methods of thought. However, the overly simple dialogue and distinct lack of evidence behind infamous sections such as "trauma does not exist" shows that this book isn't interested in the critical engagement necessary to make the theory stand beside modern psychological research - or responsibly introduce this to modern self-help readers.