{"id":213,"date":"2019-01-04T02:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T02:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/datawebtect.com\/hosurblog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2019-01-04T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T02:54:33","slug":"my-2018-book-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datawebtect.com\/hosurblog\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"My 2018 Book Recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Every once in a while we come across an interesting book that questions your assumptions, derails your beliefs and yet in a profound way affects your thoughts. Last year I picked up this innocuous looking, although bold book \u201cCourage to be Disliked – The Japanese Phenomenon that shows you How to change your life and achieve Real Happiness\u201d by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Kaga<\/a>. The title itself is quite a mouthful but the book is a light read of around 288 pages written in a conversational manner between a philosopher and a student. Whole book talks about Alfred Adler\u2019s Teleology (study of the purpose of a given phenomenon rather than cause as believed by Freud)<\/div>\n

The important thing is not what one is born with but what use one makes of that equipment – Adler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the Freudean Idea believes that a person\u2019s past psychic wounds (traumas) cause present unhappiness, Adler proposes that we don\u2019t suffer from traumas but we make out of them whatever suits our purposes. We lack courage to change our lives and find excuses in our past. No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on. Attributes all problems to interpersonal relationship problems.<\/div>\n
Here are some other ideas:<\/div>\n