The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga Book Review — Tiwatitope
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness is a personal development book by Ichiro Kishimi. The book focuses on how our lives can change and how we can achieve real happiness.
The Courage to Be Disliked centers on a simple principle — we each have the power inside ourselves to find happiness. There is no complicated or tedious formula for happiness. Happiness is available and accessible to everyone. If we embrace change and stop caring about how we are perceived, we stop placing limits upon ourselves, and we stop letting other people decide who we should be. By accepting our true nature, we accept happiness in our lives. It’s important to view our self in a way different from the way people around us view us.
Truth be told, the narrative style of the book is somewhat unusual and in fact a unique one. The dialogue that ensued between the Philosopher and young chap make it a fluid in the process of reading.
Humans generally, are all guilty of making excuses for why we are unhappy. We find people or situations to blame our moods on. This holds us back from true fulfilment. It takes courage to see that these excuses are of our own making and that we can let them go. Letting go of these excuses is an important step toward finding happiness. Letting go is important as it comes down to cause and effect.
Summarily, no matter what moments I am living, or if there are people who dislike me, which is the real picture of things, as long as I do not lose sight of the guiding star of “I contribute to others,” I will never lose my way and I will never lose my wonder.
If “I” as a person change, the world will change. This means that the world can be changed only by me and no one else will change it for me. I am important and I must see myself as such and take responsibility for my life.
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