The Courage to Be Disliked

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

By: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm, January LaVoy

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

Amazing!!

This book helped give language and a system to becoming more comfortable in your own skin. The idea that all of life is divided into tasks was very help to imagine. No need to try and complete any task that is not your own. This book talks about how “trauma” doesn’t exist. Don’t let that deter you. The lessons learned from that idea are helpful, but I don’t think I’ll be walking around telling myself or others “your trauma isn’t real” any time soon. It just helps to give power to the here and now. Overall great book! I will probably listen to it again just to make sure I remember everything.

Great book in an excellent format

This is an incredible book that is digestible, understandable, and still profound. I've heard many of these ideas before but never attributed to Adler. The ideas in this book truly have the potential to change people's lives for the better and help them live a life of freedom without constraints of the past weighing them down and without living according to others' needs. Some people complained about the format but I found that it was a great way to express the ideas and also harkens back to Socrates/Plato dialogues that are the foundation of philosophy. A++

Not what I thought it would be, but I LOVED it!

When I read the description for this book I expected it to be more self-helpy and inspirational, which it was in a sense. But mostly it was a presentation of a particular philosophy of self-actualization based on an ages-old type of psychological theory by Alfred Adler (a psychological theorist I've never heard of).

What I loved about this book is that the very heady material was presented simply through a dialogue between the characters of a philosopher and a seeker. So the concepts were presented in a way that apply the concepts to every day situations and were easy to follow along with. It gave me much food for thought!

It will take a lot of courage and faith to initiate the types of psychological changes to follow the Adlerian model, but may be worth at least dipping your toe into that pool!

I highly recommend this book, but expect to have your views of interpersonal psychology challenged!

Brilliant But Annoying

First of all, I full enjoyed learning about Adlerian psychology. I wasn’t all that familiar with it and I got a lot out of this audiobook. I thought the Q & A format was a great way to communicate some of these ideas and the examples were helpful in understanding them.

My main criticism was the way Noah Galvin read/interpreted the character of the student. He came across as antagonistic and arrogant, as though he is suspicious of this new and original point of view. Of course I believe in questioning everything, but there's a fine line between skepticism and distrust. There were times I wanted to shout: what do YOU know? You’re like TWENTY, and you're interviewing a scholar who is older and wiser. Tone down the attitude and show some humility, you might learn something.

Despite this grievance, I got a lot out of this audiobook and will definitely read more of this writer’s work.

I loved the way this book is narrated.

This book is phenomenal! It really spoke to me and helped me gain a new perspective on my problems and life in general. Nicely done!

Want to love this book

The message and true purpose of this book are powerful and on point. However, that it’s relayed in a long-outdated patriarchal conversation between painfully cliched archetypal wise teacher and arrogant student is making it hard to get through, let alone enjoy.

amazing read

must read very life changing would and definatly recommend this to everyone I know yay

My Thoughts About Life

This book has changed my life. I will work hard to implement these teachings in my life.

Entertaining and very enlightening.

This is philosophical discussion between a philosopher and a young man just getting started in life as an adult. It's about how to view life from a self directed perspective of being a contributer to life and having self worth. The philosophy in question is based on the Adlerian philosophy founded by Mr. Charles Adler who was a contemporary of Carl Jung and Alfred Freud.

I loved it. Life can be simple. Happiness, self worth, responsibility, all of it. It's just based on your viewpoints. Not only was it insightful about how to look at life in the now but also how to look at life in the big picture. It's about how to respect yourself and every other human being based on the value of just being or just existing.

What made it so funny to me was how the young man responds to the philosophers statements incredually like, "You've got to be joking" or "That just doesn't make sense" or something to that effect.

I can't say that I agree with everything the philosopher touted nor did I understand everything that was discussed. It's deep. Like when they talked about inferiority complexes and superiority complexes not being polar opposites but bordering each other. Huh? What? I've listened to this audio book several times already to get a better understanding and to reinforce the concepts but I enjoyed doing so bc I thought it was very entertaining as well.

Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that the chapter descriptions in this book are written out in detail. I like it when they do this. It makes it so much easier to book mark a certain area you want to return to. Get this book. I think you'll really enjoy it.

Need to re-listen to this one!

Loved the content of this book, there was so much jam-packed that I'll definitely need to listen again! I loved the dialogue as a proponent of the book. It would have been cool if narrators were also Japanese but they did a great job nonetheless