Stop Seeking Approval - Have The Courage to Be Disliked

17/07/2025 21 min

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Episode Synopsis

Welcome to another practical and applicable episode of the Playing Books podcast. Seeking or affirming the validation of at least one person or some people can largely influence our entire life, decisions, choices, food, accommodation, purchases, education, career, and relationships, like marriage. Living this way is bondage.This episode discusses how to accept yourself and have the courage to be disliked. It takes courage to be your true self in private, public, straining, and comfortable situations.This episode is from Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga's The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness. The authors based the book on Alfred Adler's psychological principles. For instance, no experience determines the outcomes of your life. It is rather how you deal with and handle the situation that brings happiness or despair.You can overcome the past, change for the better, have an interesting, mutual interpersonal relationship, and connections with others; become valuable to your community, and find true happiness. Feeling inadequate, trauma, insecurities, excuses, and holding on to what people think of you are the seeds of unhappiness. But you can break free from this, and it is your task to change your life and lead a truly happy life.Get the book, The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness, and use the ideas in the guide that comes with the book to cultivate self-acceptance, confidence in others, and learn how to make positive contributions where you are with what you have. You can get it on Amazon, https://amzn.to/4eZpcBV, and other bookstores.Please, share the episode and recommend the Playing Books podcast to your family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and others to learn from Bestselling books, change for the better, contribute to making the world better, and enjoy literary ideas of the best minds of our world.Thank you.

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