The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

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The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

Quite interesting and useful. It’s not a self-help book, nor is it a Japanese phenomenon as the publisher touts, it is a book based on the philosophies of Alfred Adler, who was a contemporary of Freud and Jung but departed from their heavy reliance on trauma and cause and effect rationality. It was through Ichiro Kishimi’s books on Adler that excited Fumitake Koga and together their desire to share the Adler philosophy with the world is how this book was born.

The title is what drew me to this book. The courage to be disliked? That is indeed freeing in some aspects. In Adlerian psychology that is the key to freedom, but how you get there, is what keeps the reader staying the course. The book is written in a dialogue manner between a youth and a philosopher. So it’s not in that preachy or bullet point genre, just two people exchanging ideas about life. And the dialogue is not setup in a vertical manner but the youth and the Philosopher are communicating on a horizontal plane, which by the way is a key in the journey to freedom. Seek to build horizontal relationships and refrain from vertical ones.

I’m sure that thought, like dozens of others in this book have not been contemplated by most, so in many instances I found myself asking in my head the same questions that the youth was asking. Because I’ve done some reading in African philosophy and thought, I found some ideas here that clearly came/come from the wisdom of African thought, to which Greek philosophy owes its glory. This fact is not acknowledged by the authors and perhaps they are unaware.

I still am giving five stars because I think the dialogue is enlightening and useful, especially so for parents of young children who are trying to steer the lives of their children, Adlerian philosophy warns against intervening in the tasks that belong to the children. It is one thing to read bout various theories and quite another to try and implement these these theories in one’s life to attempt to make positive changes. This book could serve as an arresting beginning.

✅ Genre: Fiction, Psychoanalysis.

✅ Premium Quality Books.

✅ High Printing quality.

✅ Eye Friendly.

✅ Matt cover (Paperback).