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The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga · 2018 · 288 pages

2 people have this book on the record — 1 of 2 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
I love books that explore and explain the works of philosophers in fresh, aproachable ways. Especially those works that are meant to liberate oneself. Don’t let the self-help-y title of the book distract you: it’s a very good read.

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

Derek Sivers loved it
Wow. A profound little philosophy book from Japan, communicating the psychology of Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud. Told as a conversation between an angry student and a patient teacher. A little book so good that I rushed home from other activities to keep reading it, and finished in a day. A surprisingly fresh perspective on how to live. (The “disliked” part is not the point, so don’t let the…

on sive.rs · 25 Jul 2018

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.