The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

by Ichiro Kishimi

Yes. Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage. Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.

We sometimes make excuses for ourselves to protect us from being hurt by rejection or failure. Which thus leads us to being unhappy. Then justify our unhappiness by blaming it on circumstance

anger is a tool. A means for achieving a goal.

Did that really make you angry? Or was it just an excuse for you to yell