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The Courage to Be Happy

True Contentment Is Within Your Power

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The Courage to Be Happy

By: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm, January LaVoy
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The sequel to the mega-selling international phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked.

This audiobook is a compass.

Navigate and discover

along your path

the courage to be happy.

The Courage to Be Happy presents profound insights into living life courageously and finding happiness along the way. It has already sold more than a million copies in Japan and is a sequel to The Courage to Be Disliked, which has changed lives across the globe as an international best-selling sensation.

As in The Courage to Be Disliked, we follow a Socratic dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher believes that the key to a life of happiness and fulfilment is offered to us by the theories of Alfred Adler, a forgotten giant of 19th-century psychology who has long been overshadowed by his two contemporaries, Freud and Jung. The young man is full of doubt that life can be genuinely improved by simply changing his thinking. Patiently, the philosopher explains the essence of Adler's 'psychology of courage', taking the young man through the mental steps necessary to achieve it, and demonstrating to the young man and to us the changes this psychology will bring to the way we live our lives.

This is a work that is truly life-changing in its power and universally applicable in its scope.

©2019 Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio
Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Happiness Inspiring Thought-Provoking
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Whiny, the voice of the youth got under my skin and distracted from the message. Such a shame the narrators of the first book were not used again.

Irritating Youth Voice

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it's an astonishing book, thank you to the researcher and research and especially to the author and publisher, this book and knowledge has helped me from being imprisoned by my own doing with my ANT's.

I do recommend a read of the book 🙂

thank you for helping me with the courage to be more happy

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seriously most annoying voice actor. made me cringe. proof there is no God. my ears are ringing.

annoying student voice actor should do something else

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Loved every minute of it. A great book and a great listen, thank you so much for the authors.

Brilliant follow up!

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Adler is a fascinating subject and the dialectic style of this work is a great way to explore and test his ideas.

Truly insightful dialectic to extend on disliked

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I enjoyed the story and sentiment to convey the message except some of the responses from the young man were very harsh and the tone was grating for me and almost too aggressive. But it showed the philosopher to be very tolerant so I guess that was the point. Still recommend this book however.

Very good

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Extremely relatable and engaging. I will be sharing with my family and friends . Principles clearly explained and strategies also to put into practice.

Profoundly relatable

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I have enjoyed this book so much that I listen to it at least once a month.

listen to this over and over

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One of the most obvious reason that I gave 3 stars for performance it is because youth’s narration. They have to carry on their continuation with the previous narrators. He got so angry for no reason. It is really hard to listen… disappointing ….

Great followed up from their first book

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ease of follow and interaction. nicely narrated. planned well and follows good line to understand

philosophical ease

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