BOOKS THE COURAGE TO BE HAPPY.
The Courage to be Happy is a profound insight into the way we should live our lives that has already sold more than one million copies in Japan.
As in The Courage to be Disliked, we follow a Socratic dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher believes that the key to a life of happiness and fulfillment is offered to us by the theories of Alfred Adler, a forgotten giant of 19th century psychology, who’s long been overshadowed by his two contemporaries Freud and Jung. The young man is full of doubt that life can be genuinely improved by simply changing your thinking. Patiently, the philosopher explains the essence of Adler’s ‘psychology of courage’, taking the young man through the mental steps necessary to achieve it, and demonstrating the changes it will bring to the way we live our lives.
This is a work that is truly life-changing in its power, and universally applicable in its scope.
RECOMMENDATION… Another inspiring book that lifts a subject in today world on how to be happy. This is a must book for any ages but for the youth growing up this is a valuable book where they can read this book and take chapters that the writers have outlined that give great guidance. Postive reading!
THE AUTHORS ARE…
Ichiro Kishimi was born in Kyoto, where he still lives, in 1956. He has aspired to become a philosopher since his days in high school. Since 1989, while specialising in Classical Western philosophy, with a special focus on Platonic philosophy, he has researched Adlerian psychology; he writes and lectures on the subject, and provides counselling for “youths” in psychiatric clinics as a certified counsellor and consultant for the Japanese Society of Adlerian Psychology. He is the translator, into Japanese, of selected writings by Alfred Adler: Kojin Shinrigaku Kogi (The Science of Living) and Hito wa Naze Shinkeisho ni Naru no ka (Problems of Neurosis), and he is the author of Adora Shinrigaku Nyumon (Introduction to Adlerian Psychology), in addition to numerous other books.
Fumitake Koga, an award-winning professional writer and author, was born in 1973. He has released numerous bestselling works of business-related and general non-fiction. He encountered Adlerian psychology in his late twenties, and was deeply affected by its conventional wisdom-defying ideas. Thereafter, Koga made numerous visits to Ichiro Kishimi in Kyoto, gleaned from him the essence of Adlerian psychology, and took down the notes for the classical ‘dialogue format’ method of Greek philosophy that is used in this book.
Together, Ichiro and Fumitake are the authors of the bestselling The Courage to be Disliked.
Bibliographic information
The Courage to be Happy
Title The Courage to be Happy: True contentment is within your power–the new Japanese phenomenon from the authors of the global bestseller, The Courage to be Disliked
Authors Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Publisher Allen & Unwin, 2019
ISBN 1760871346, 9781760871345
Length 272 pages
Subjects Self-Help › Personal Growth › General
