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Tag: self-help

Tag: self-help

9 pages tagged self-help.

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  • Chapter 39: Stoicism in Personal Development and Self-Help — Stoicism 101

    Why a 2,000-year-old philosophy keeps reappearing on modern self-help shelves — and how to use Stoic principles as an actual development practice rather than as decoration.

  • Authors’ Note — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga introduce Alfred Adler — the ‘third giant’ of psychology whose ideas about freedom, purpose, and happiness form the basis of this book.

  • Contents — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Table of contents for The Courage To Be Disliked — an overview of the five night dialogues between the Youth and the Philosopher.

  • The First Night: Deny Trauma — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Adler’s radical claim — that past experiences do not determine the present, because all behavior is purposive rather than caused — and what this means for the possibility of change.

  • The Third Night: Discard Other People’s Tasks — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Adler’s most practical tool: separating your tasks from other people’s tasks, and why the desire for recognition is the primary source of unfreedom.

  • The Fourth Night: Where the Centre of the World Is — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Adler’s positive vision: community feeling as the goal of all interpersonal relationships, why praise creates vertical relationships that enslave, and why contribution — not recognition — is the only reliable source of feeling your life has value.

  • The Fifth Night: To Live in Earnest in the Here and Now — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Adler’s answer to the question of happiness: self-acceptance over self-affirmation, unconditional confidence in others, contribution as the act that generates worth, and the courage to live fully in the present moment rather than as a journey toward a destination.

  • Afterword — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Fumitake Koga recounts how he discovered Adlerian psychology in a bookshop in 1999, and how a ten-year pursuit led to this collaboration with Ichiro Kishimi.

  • The Courage To Be Disliked — Book Summary — The Courage To Be Disliked

    Chapter-by-chapter synthesis of The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga — a Socratic dialogue that introduces Alfred Adler’s radical psychology of freedom, self-acceptance, and interpersonal courage.

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