The Courage To Be Disliked

Written by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, the book draws on the ideas of Alfred Adler, whom the publisher ranks with Freud and Jung among the three giants of 19th-century psychology, to argue that people are free to decide their own future. In their account, neither past experience nor self-doubt nor what others expect need hold anyone back, and the limits people place on themselves, or that those around them impose, can be ignored. The philosophy they set out is meant to build the courage to change, and the authors also aim to show how to find lasting happiness. Millions of readers had already read it by the time it was published in English for the first time.

Jay Shetty named it one of 10 books that changed his life, and Andrew Huberman said he recommends it to everybody. Marc Andreessen described it as Adlerian psychology meeting Stoic philosophy in a Socratic dialogue and recommended it highly.