A review by ladylovestead
The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

medium-paced

1.0

Well....this was really bad. Let me list some of the chapter titles for you: "Trauma Does Not Exist," "People Fabricate Anger," "Unhappiness is Something You Choose for Yourself," "All Problems are Interpersonal Relationship Problems" and so on. Those are not tongue-in-cheek chapter titles. Those are actual claims this book makes. I kept reading it thinking there would be a twist or something that would fix the fact that these claims have no basis in current research on psychology or even biology but no...it just doubled down on this kind of thinking. I also did not understand the subtitle of it being a specifically Japanese tradition. The underpinning philosophy is (outdated) Adlerian psychology (which is American, I think?) and Greek philosophy. Was it the story telling structure that made it Japanese? I honestly have no idea. Anyway, this was terrible and not based in facts. I think it actually does more harm than good. Don't read it. IMHO.