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A review by paige_floyd
The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
informative
reflective
medium-paced
1.0
Sooo, I have the courage to dislike this book.
This was not as good as I'd hoped.
It's not that I completely disagree with all concepts within the book, but more with how they were explained. On top of that, I disagreed with the idea that trauma doesn't exist. Adler's theory also completely individualised issues and states that we choose our emotions. For me, it was too simple. So we can just choose to have courage? Choose to be happy? I've had experiences in my life where I had to choose to improve my life, but, it was a much more complicated process then a switch going off in my head. I would have liked more of a reflection on that.
Also, the entire conversation was frustrating, because sometimes I agreed with the youth, and sometimes I agreed with the philosopher but they just kept arguing about it and then were besties at the end <3
I can see how certain things in this book are helpful, and for its length, I can understand why things were not gone into detail. But for such a complicated and profound concept, it was not the right delivery and just did not connect with me. On top of that, a few of the themes felt very negative, and there were a few broad assumptions about people thrown out there.
This was not as good as I'd hoped.
It's not that I completely disagree with all concepts within the book, but more with how they were explained. On top of that, I disagreed with the idea that trauma doesn't exist. Adler's theory also completely individualised issues and states that we choose our emotions. For me, it was too simple. So we can just choose to have courage? Choose to be happy? I've had experiences in my life where I had to choose to improve my life, but, it was a much more complicated process then a switch going off in my head. I would have liked more of a reflection on that.
Also, the entire conversation was frustrating, because sometimes I agreed with the youth, and sometimes I agreed with the philosopher but they just kept arguing about it and then were besties at the end <3
I can see how certain things in this book are helpful, and for its length, I can understand why things were not gone into detail. But for such a complicated and profound concept, it was not the right delivery and just did not connect with me. On top of that, a few of the themes felt very negative, and there were a few broad assumptions about people thrown out there.