The courage to be disliked: How to free yourself change your life and achieve real happiness

By Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

A dialogue between a philosopher and a dissatisfied young man, staged over five nights, that introduces the ideas of Alfred Adler to a general audience. The argument is uncomfortable on purpose: that our past does not determine us, that most unhappiness is rooted in relationships, and that real freedom begins when you stop organising your life around other people’s approval. A publishing phenomenon in Japan and Korea before it reached English.

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