"The Courage to Be Disliked" Philosophy Lesson of Adler, the "Father of Self-Enlightenment" Author: Ichiro Kishimi / Fumihiko Koga Douban Books Top 250

Kishimi Ichiro

Philosopher. Born in Kyoto in 1956, currently living in Kyoto. He had been interested in philosophy since high school, and after entering university, he frequently went to his teacher's house for debates. He dropped out of the doctoral program at the Department of Literature at Kyoto University Graduate School. Since 1989, he has devoted himself to the study of professional philosophy and Adlerian psychology. His main areas of activity are writing and lecturing on Adlerian psychology and ancient philosophy, and he also provides psychological counseling to many young people in psychiatric hospitals. He is a certified consultant of the Japanese Adlerian Psychology Association. He has translated Alfred Adler's "Lectures on Personal Psychology" and "Why People Suffer from Neurosis", and has written many works such as "Introduction to Adlerian Psychology". He was responsible for the original draft of this book.

Fumio Koga

Freelance writer. Born in 1973. Known for his dialogue writing (writing in the question-and-answer format), he has published many bestsellers in the fields of business or nonfiction. His interviews, which are full of liveliness and rhythm, are widely praised, and the cumulative sales of his interview collection "16-year-old textbook" series have exceeded 700,000 copies. When he was nearly 30 years old, he encountered Adlerian psychology and was shocked by its ideas that subverted common sense. After that, he visited Ichiro Kishimi in Kyoto for several consecutive years and asked him about the essence of Adlerian psychology. In this book, he presents the content in the classical method of Greek philosophy, "dialogue". He is the author of "Lectures on articles that I want my 20-year-old self to accept."