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Frances Nomura asked this question about The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness:
I’m having difficulty with separation of tasks and contribution to society. I understood separation of tasks at the beginning but when he mentioned doing this and being happy about it because your are contributing doesn’t that go against separation of tasks? In his example of washing the dishes for the family. What if that task was assigned to the husband yet he is not doing it so you end up doing it yourself.
Evita In example of dishes, why would you end up doing it yourself? The book also speaks about not intervening in other’s tasks, i.e. having confidence in o…moreIn example of dishes, why would you end up doing it yourself? The book also speaks about not intervening in other’s tasks, i.e. having confidence in other person even when he’s failing - it’s his task to deal with consequences. If you focus on your own tasks instead, then you’re happy about your contribution to others. But I’m also curious what to do when someone’s failure at his task is practically impacting you (no dishes to eat from) - should you provide sincere feedback that it’s impacting you and revise whose task it is or just wash one dish for yourself? :) Author’s explanation of “separation of tasks” was more philosophical than literal, so I’m also struggling in some literal examples. (less)
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The Courage to Be Disliked
by Ichiro Kishimi
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