"The Courage to Not Care" Author: [Japan] Ichiro Kishimi Publisher: Machinery Industry Press

Based on Adlerian psychology, this book systematically explains how we can actively face life issues including death. This book is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is "The 'I' who keeps exploring", which focuses on "thinking about life", emphasizes the importance of thinking about life, and advocates that the true meaning of life must be explored by oneself, and only in this way can we live our own life. The second chapter is "The 'I' who stops and thinks quietly". The author believes that no matter how busy our lives are, as long as we calm down and think clearly about "what is most important to ourselves", we can calmly face everything in life and live a meaningful life that truly belongs to us. The third chapter is "The 'I' who can change at any time", which emphasizes that living is changing. As long as we have the will and determination to change, our lives can change at any time. The author believes that only by seriously thinking about what is most important to us, and then focusing on the present, not caring about the past, not worrying about the future, and doing what we can do at the moment seriously and calmly, can we live our own meaningful life.

Kishimi Ichiro

Born in Kyoto in 1956. After completing the doctoral course at the Department of Literature at Kyoto University, he dropped out (majoring in the history of Western philosophy). He has written "The Courage to Be Disliked" and "The Courage to Be Happy" (both co-authored with Fumitake Koga, published by Diamond Sha), "Stop Praising" and "No Blame, No Praise, No Command" (published by Nikkei BP), "Life Is Hard, But We Must Live" (published by Kodansha), "The Courage to Live in the Present" (published by NHK Publishing), "The Philosophy of Unrest" (published by Shodensha), "The Courage to Be Angry" (published by Kawaide Shobo Shinsha), and "From Despair to Hope" (published by Yamato Shobo). His translations include Alfred Adler's "Lectures on Individual Psychology" and "The Psychology of the Meaning of Life" (published by arte), Plato's "Timaeus/Critias" (published by Shirasawasha), etc.