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The Courage to Be Happy

True Contentment Is Within Your Power

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The Courage to Be Happy

By: Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
Narrated by: January LaVoy, Noah Galvin
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About this listen

The sequel to the mega-selling international phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked.

This audiobook is a compass.

Navigate and discover

along your path

the courage to be happy.

The Courage to Be Happy presents profound insights into living life courageously and finding happiness along the way. It has already sold more than a million copies in Japan and is a sequel to The Courage to Be Disliked, which has changed lives across the globe as an international best-selling sensation.

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 fulfilment is offered to us by the theories of Alfred Adler, a forgotten giant of 19th-century psychology who has 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 his 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 to the young man and to us the changes this psychology 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.

©2019 Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Happiness Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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That's one of the very good questions this book nudges you to ask yourself.
Took a star away because of the young actor's performance, as many others mentioned here.

You want it easy or you want to be happy?

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An interesting insight into Adlerian Psychology, The Courage to be Happy is more of a guide to educational psychology taking the form of a dialogue between a mentor and mentee, the latter who often responds with incredulity to many of the claims of Adlerian Psychology.
A decent book for anyone who wants to explore the psychology of serving and understanding others better, and in turn gaining a greater degree of self-worth.

Interesting insight into Adlerian Psychology

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Having read The Courage To Be Disliked, I was thoroughly looking forward to reading this sequel. Although I didn't know where it would go as the first book had been such a comprehensive discussion on Adlerian themes. The content of this book is again very interesting and works further to elucidate the more controversial of Adlers ideas such a not praising or rebuking actions amongst others. For this it was an excellent book and very thought provoking.

However, one enormous downside, was the narration. They seemingly had more money for production this time round and well, "jumped the shark". The narrator for the philosopher was excellent, the lady introducing the chapters was unnecessary but unremarkable and therefore tolerable. Yet, the voice actor for the young man/apprentice was just intolerable and ridiculous. I found his poor voice acting was seriously detracting from my enjoyment of the book. To the point I had to stop for several weeks half way through and go back to it as he was so grating. The young mans character issues some ridiculous ridicules and absurd abuse towards the philosopher, which I found trite and all the more incongruous due to the theatrical style if the younger voice actor.
All in, if you don't mind pantomime quality voice acting I would say forge on with the audiobook. If you are sensitive to the quality of the narration and find excessive AmDram style theatrics irritating. I would still definitely recommend this book, however in print / ebook version.

Fascinating concepts discussed, but . .

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After enjoying the courage to be disliked and loving the content I decided to purchase this. unfortunately the youth has this annoying, whiney American accent that is barely tolerable. I will persevere because the content is fantastic.

A bit disappointed

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The student narrator is terrible. Terrible casting. Book deserves better.
Particularly good for teachers and parents.

Great follow up.

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Great concept for a book. The discussion was really engaging. Introduced to Adlerian psychology for the first time.

interesting and inspiring

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Long story short - great book that you should read that will help you in your life that is well read by the older gentleman.

Sadly, the young reader (the book is written as a dialogue) in this book is just awful and really butchers the reading in a way I didn't think possible.

It makes it incredibly hard to listen to and frankly I'd recommend picking up the book on physical form as I did.

Great content - punishingly bad reader.

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Bringing Great Insights to a practical light through an engrossing dialogue. Bringing the work of Adler (and to a lesser extent Froh) to the world is a great gift. Some of the acting of the student could have been a bit more nuanced but overall great and powerful.

Outstanding Work bringing Great Insights

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Don't get me wrong, the message in this book is okay in some parts. But it adds very little to the first book, in fact, I think it takes away from the pleasure that was "The Courage To Be Disliked". Overall the messages are just echoes from the first version, with the student or professor "recapping" just in case the audience forgot - which again was just repeating content.

The main premise of the book is a teacher ("educator") as the student speaking to an Adlerian psychologist. The problem is that most of the ideas only apply in the setting of a teacher/student (or parent/child) relationship and fails to address topics the reader can relate to.

Overall, this book attempts to build upon the success of the first, but has failed to do so.

Another superfluous sequel.

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Really great follow up from their first book and loved the reference to education that teachers are counsellors and that councillors are teachers... a must for all teachers from a retired headteacher!

Beautiful engaging and creator of hope

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