The Courage to Be Disliked

this is a excellent book if you are really ready to change and face yourself. full of tough questions and hard to swallow answers but full of great knowledge and useful exercises. ps i kind of love hate this one.

Very deep and philosophical, perhaps a little more so than I had expected. But for those who are determined, who are searching, there is great insight within its pages.This format was probably much better, between a man and a youth, than had they gone the traditional route. It made it easier to stick with, and follow the story.

It has an interesting topic and many good parts and clear explanations. but the performance gets a bit annoying with all the anger and emotional reactions of the young man.Also the fact thathe gets convinced about all his questions and doubts is disturbing since doesn't let the listener think clearly and decide by herself!

Japanese rediscovering Austrians rediscovering Stoics told in a fake conversation with someone who has no clue how _youth_ speaks. It’s not terrible but I suggest you find a good Stoic book instead.

When I read the description for this book I expected it to be more self-helpy and inspirational, which it was in a sense. But mostly it was a presentation of a particular philosophy of self-actualization based on an ages-old type of psychological theory by Alfred Adler (a psychological theorist I've never heard of). What I loved about this book is that the very heady material was presented simply through a dialogue between the characters of a philosopher and a seeker. So the concepts were presented in a way that apply the concepts to every day situations and were easy to follow along with. It gave me much food for thought! It will take a lot of courage and faith to initiate the types of psychological changes to follow the Adlerian model, but may be worth at least dipping your toe into that pool! I highly recommend this book, but expect to have your views of interpersonal psychology challenged!

The voice of the kid is hard to listen to. Very irritating. And the dialogue is bad. This dialogue style works only if the arguments and questions that oppose the premise of the book are good. The kid's are horrible. He spends a lot of time simply saying "I can't accept that." That's not an argument. It doesn't move the conversation forward.

I would give this negative stars if possible. This book posits, almost immediately, that trauma doesn’t exist. Trauma, according to the authors, is simply a tool people use to achieve their conscious or subconscious goals. I work with children with special needs. By the “reasoning” employed by the authors, all of the trauma that they have experienced due to abuse (emotional, psychological, physical, sexual), doesn’t exist and is simply a way to get what they want. This same absurd idea applies equally to all people, including cancer patients, people with P.T.S.D., you name it. Not only does the author contradict mountains of mental health research, the ideas posited are very dangerous, and demonstrably, obviously, and quite simply WRONG. Don’t waste you money on this New Age, faux-Eastern-wisdom rubbish. I want my money back. Everyone involved in the creation and distribution of this “information” should be ashamed of themselves.

I pride myself on being able to extract the cost of purchase via ideas, if not more from every book. There are some ideas worth exploring, however, so much of the narrative is confusing. The philosopher would say one thing then double back and refute his commentary. Honestly, it felt like another one of those propaganda books that inspires one to question themselves. I wanted to like it, but there are many reasons not to. Lastly, the editor or author needs to revise the layout it's all over the place. Hope you get something out of it, but I'm not their customer.

This book is exceptional and presents a groundwork dialogue between a young man and older philosopher on a journey of questions.New to me are the ideas that happiness is the feeling of contribution and that every problem is an interpersonal relationship problem.

Couldnt listen to it for more than 10 minutes without being able to tolerate the boys voice. Probably good advice, but very hard to pay attention to the teachings for the reason of the voice.

First of all, I full enjoyed learning about Adlerian psychology. I wasn’t all that familiar with it and I got a lot out of this audiobook. I thought the Q & A format was a great way to communicate some of these ideas and the examples were helpful in understanding them. My main criticism was the way Noah Galvin read/interpreted the character of the student. He came across as antagonistic and arrogant, as though he is suspicious of this new and original point of view. Of course I believe in questioning everything, but there's a fine line between skepticism and distrust. There were times I wanted to shout: what do YOU know? You’re like TWENTY, and you're interviewing a scholar who is older and wiser. Tone down the attitude and show some humility, you might learn something. Despite this grievance, I got a lot out of this audiobook and will definitely read more of this writer’s work.

Its not often I have my view of the world and myself shaken, but this book sure did it. I'm tremendously more confident in myself to the point where unrelated problems also began to lessen. This book is applicable to any interaction you can have with a person or yourself, and I cannot do justice to how helpful it's been to me.

The Courage to be Liked tops my list of all time best books in its category. The contents were presented in an easy to understand and held my attention which contributed to my motivation to listen to it in its entirety within just a few days. I was vaguely familiar with Alfred Adler's ideas in individual psychology, but after listening to the book, I became more interested in learning more about his teachings and ideas about personal development and positive psychology. The narration was top notch as well. The back and forth discussion made the book perhaps the most entertaining audio book I've listened to to date. I wish all audio books put as much work into the performance as these narrators did. Both the content and reading (performance) makes this book indispensable. I actually purchased a hard copy of the book for my library as well.

The book is very very deep entrenched in Greek philosophy, I’d say stoicism especially. The way it is presented makes it very accessible and useful to today’s life, and even more to teenagers and young adults that are having a hard time to find a solid foundation from where to build their future on. Great and straightforward.

Powerful and thought provoking & deserving of asecond listen almost immediately. I wore out the "bookmark" and "clip" functions for future reflection and study. The "acting" of those portraying the fable characters distracted at times, and I'm doubting elements of the translation - the "youth" used the word "sophistry" at least six times - but overall the ideas shone through for someone looking for more than just another "self-help" book.