The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

"I suppose its only natural you haven't heard of Adler."

Back in my naval gazing days, I downloaded this book to try and get a handle on my desire to please people and inability to say no for fear of offending people. Perhaps just recognising that fact was enough, because, frankly I didn't feel this book did much for me.
It's framed as a conversation between a scholar and philosopher and based on the teachings of German psychologist Alfred Adler.

Did I learn anything? I'm not sure I learnt anything I didn't know before and I found much within that conflicted. Ultimately this just confirmed my notion that self help books aren't really for me.


3 out of 5 navel gazers might find some fluff.