The Japanese phenomenon that reaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness. How to free yourself, Change your life and achieve real happiness.

“Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself. You are the one who decides how you live.”

The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of the 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a philosophy that’s profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place ourselves.

The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom.

“ A young man who was determined to reject the philosopher’s theories because he lacked self-confidence and ever since childhood, this had been compounded by deep-seated feelings of inferiority with regard in his personal and academic backgrounds, as well as his physical appearance. He tended to be excessively self conscious when people looked at him. He seemed  incapable of truly appreciating  other people’s happiness, and was constantly pitying himself. “

The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, Allen & Unwin £10.99