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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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Other reviewers aren’t exaggerating when they claim this book can change your life. I have just finished hearing it (the audiobook is a fabulous was to experience the conversation between the curious but frustrated youth and the wise and kind philosopher).
I already want to start it again from the beginning and I usually never do that with a book.
Buy it. Savour it. And start living it today. This isn’t self-help. This is true human wisdom.

What an incredible book

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this great book will definitely help the listener/reader achieve own goals. it draws a very clear line between yourself and everyone else. this will help you and whoever around you to live in peace and harmony. eventually everyone around you will benefit from it. I can recommend it enough for anyone who wants to unravel the questions about life and who we are.

one thing about the audio is, after a while, I started to predict the dialouge and to be honest, I got a little irritated by the narrator's voice. just my two cents.

drawing a definitive line between you and the rest

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Very deep and philosophical, perhaps a little more so than I had expected. But for those who are determined, who are searching, there is great insight within its pages.This format was probably much better, between a man and a youth, than had they gone the traditional route. It made it easier to stick with, and follow the story.

Good book!

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I just finished reading this book. If you are a person that gets frustrated when you lead a horse to water and they refuse to drink, this book might be for you. It doesn’t punch you in the face with one persons view but gets the point across through real a dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. I thoroughly enjoy it as I am not one to regularly read philosophy, but this book is a great read.

Philosophy for a regular person

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This book changed my way to say life and all of my problems. I’m in love with this book. And I’m going to read it always.

I’m in love with this book

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This book explained to me why I do not have a life I say I want. More importantly, it explains how to get it.

Life changing

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Listen to this helped me understand the book in a way I might have struggled with just reading it on my own.

The conversation seem real.

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I wasn’t a huge fan of the style but loved the message. At the end the author explained the style of writing.

Mind blown

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very interesting thoughts. pretty thought provoking, actually. The younger narrators voice kind of great it on me like fingernails on a chalkboard. That's why I gave the performance a little less than stellar. I'd like to learn more about this kind of psychology.

Interesting

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This book is unbelievable it will change your life. A friend recommended this to me and i can't stop listening to it.

Best Audiobook ever

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