The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness

It’s actually that he wants to leave the possibility of ‘I can do it if I try’ open, by not committing to anything. He doesn’t want to expose his work to criticism,

Yes. Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage. Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.

In other words, rather than being a strict area of scholarship, Adlerian psychology is accepted as a realisation;

He won’t get anywhere by not submitting anything.

Answers from others are nothing more than stopgap measures; they’re of no value.

We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining.’

will not cure it.’ She pressed me, ‘Why?’ I explained, ‘Look, it’s thanks to your fear of blushing that you can accept your dissatisfaction with yourself and the world around you, and with a life that isn’t going well. It’s thanks to your fear of blushing, and it’s caused by it.’

Regardless of what may have happened in the past, it is the meaning that is attributed to it that determines the way someone’s present will be.

But those who make themselves look bigger on borrowed power are essentially living according to other people’s value systems—they