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The Courage to Be Disliked

How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness

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The Courage to Be Disliked

By: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm, January LaVoy
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The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous best seller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be.

Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 20th-century psychology, The Courage to Be Disliked follows an illuminating conversation between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher explains to his pupil how each of us is able to determine our own life, free from the shackles of past experiences, doubts, and the expectations of others. It's a way of thinking that is deeply liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change and to ignore the limitations that we and other people have placed on us. The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. This truly life-changing audiobook will help you declutter your mind of harmful thoughts and attitudes, helping you to make a lasting change, achieve real happiness, and find success.

©2018 Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (P)2018 Simon & Schuster
Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Well-being Essentials Inspiring Japanese Philosophy
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Engaging Dialogue Format • Accessible Philosophical Concepts • Digestible Complex Ideas • Relatable Narrative Structure
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this is a excellent book if you are really ready to change and face yourself. full of tough questions and hard to swallow answers but full of great knowledge and useful exercises. ps i kind of love hate this one.

Great Stuff

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Powerful and thought provoking & deserving of a second listen almost immediately. I wore out the "bookmark" and "clip" functions for future reflection and study. The "acting" of those portraying the fable characters distracted at times, and I'm doubting elements of the translation - the "youth" used the word "sophistry" at least six times - but overall the ideas shone through for someone looking for more than just another "self-help" book.

Profound! Deeper than your usual "self-help" book

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The older man is fine, but the kid is ridiculously annoying. I enjoyed the format and how well everything is explained. But poor narration makes it a chore to listen to.

Great stuff, but narration is annoying

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Exceptional dialogue in understanding the self, individual, the purpose of community with respect to purpose, philosophy, psychology, and the POWER OF NOW!

Amazing breakdown to live life!

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Quite the breath of fresh air in this day and age of safe spaces and me too declarations. This book helps to gently guide you along the path of self actualization and taking responsibility for your own path.

Eye opening and transformative.

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On the rare occurrence that I come across a book this powerful, I will listen to it over and over until I feel like I've fully absorbed the ideas. Sometimes that's 10 or 20 listens. But with this book I don't think I could stomach a second listen. I think in text form it would be fine, but the student's performance in this audiobook is so annoying that it makes it nearly impossible to get through. Ultimately I listened at 3X to make it bearable, but it's a real shame since this book has such life changing ideas. I wish it was more accessible in audio form.

Life changing ideas, annoying narration

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based on the title, I assumed this book would be another feel good about yourself don't worry about what other people think etc. Some of the chapters were hard to accept at first because the author impresses upon you to take responsibility for what are your"tasks" and what are other people's"tasks". this is definitely on my listen to again list

don't judge this book by its title!

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I'm glad I found this book the conversation format was excellent and it gives you great insight and examples which many books lack.

10/10

life changing 🙌

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Changed my life. Fantastic!! Anyone searching or wondering about life needs to listen to this book!

Most amazing book! A must read for anyone searching

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From the content of the book to the voice and delivery of the readers. I enjoyed it thoroughly!

Everything about this book is amazing!

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