Book Review [166] : The Courage To Be Disliked

 

'The Courage to be disliked' by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is a book inspired by Adlerian Psychology. I bought it from Amazon after seeing it as a best sellers and 'Over three million copies sold worldwide' written on top of it. I have read many self help books but i will not rate this book in my top 5 books.

I gave sufficient time and energy to read this book but it failed to inspire me. I think i am at fault in getting some thing meaningful from this book. The few concepts that can be useful in one's life:

• Separation of tasks
• Feeling of community
• Having confidence in others
• Horizontal relationships
• We always have a choice to chose our destiny
• Cribbing over past is not right
• Everything is a complex of inter personal relationship problems
• Praise and Rebuke are manipulative tools
• Respecting boundaries are important 

This book is written in a dialogue form and this has put me off. At many places it reeks of boredom and banal megalomania. 

Time Pass Read (5/10)

Book Review [145] : Meditations

'Meditations' written by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD) in Greek is generally considered a great work of western philosophy. Marcus Aurelius was much influenced by Stoic philosophy that was prevalent in Rome in that era. Though i am not much impressed by this book and read it only because it features among great books of all time. This book contains advises and directions to live a meaningful life.

I love this part from the book when Marcus says "Stop drifting. You are not going to re read your brief comments, your deeds of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes and if your well being matters to you, be your own savior while you can".

Read if you are really interested (5/10)