The Courage to Be Happy
by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The sequel to The Courage to Be Disliked continues the dialogue three years on, with the youth now a teacher struggling to apply Adler: education, respect, the problems of praise and punishment, love as a decision and the task of self-reliance. It is denser than the first and deepens rather than repeats.
Read it if…
you read the first book and want to go further into Adlerian practice, especially love and teaching.
Skip it if…
you have not read The Courage to Be Disliked; start there.
Three things you will actually use
- Respect, not praise, builds self-reliance.
- Love is a decision and a task, not a feeling that happens.
- Happiness is contribution.
Do this first
Replace praise with respect in one interaction: acknowledge the person, not the performance.
Our verdict
Deeper sequel.
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