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Our Positive Psychology Reading Group is now reading:
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga*
The Courage to Be Disliked paperback has sold over 3.5 million copies, and is a Japanese phenomenon that shows how to live a life and achieve real lasting happiness. It's already an enormous bestseller and based on Alfred Adler's philosophical tenets.
Read the assigned chapter(s) and come discuss with us!
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*Available on ebook and eaudiobook on LIBBY and e-audiobook on HOOPLA
Breakdown of readings:
March 5th: Third Meeting - assigned readings: THE THIRD NIGHT: Discard Other People's Tasks
Deny the Desire for Recognition 111
Do Not Live to Satisfy the Expectations of Others 116
How to Separate Tasks 122
Discard Other's People's Tasks 126
How to Rid Yourself of Interpersonal Relationship Problems 129
Cut the Gordian Knot 133
Desire for Recognition Makes You Unfree 138
What Real Freedom Is 142
You Hold the Cards to Interpersonal Relationships 147
March 12th - Fourth Meeting - assigned reading THE FOURTH NIGHT: Where the Center of the World Is
Individual Psychology and Holism 157
The Goal of Interpersonal Relationships is a Feeling of Community 161
Why am I Only Interested in Myself? 165
You are Not the Center of the World 168
Listen to the Voice of a Larger Community 172
Do Not Rebuke or Praise 178
The Encouragement Approach 183
How to Feel You Have Value 187
Exist in the Present 191
People Cannot Make Proper Use of Self 195
March 19th - Fifth Meeting - assigned reading THE FIFTH NIGHT: To Live in Earnest in the Here and Now
Excessive Self-Consciousness Stifles the Self 205
Not the Self-Affirmation-Self Acceptance 208
The Difference Between Trust and Confidence 212
The Essence of Work is a Contribution to the Common Good 219
Young People Walk Ahead of Adults 223
Workaholism Is Life-Lie 227
You Can Be Happy Now 232
Two Paths Traveled by Those Wanting to be "Special Beings" 238
The Courage to be Normal 242
Life is a Series of Moments 245
Live Like You're Dancing 248
Shine a Light on the Here and Now 252
The Greatest Life-Lie 255
Give Meaning to Seemingly Meaningless Life 258
Afterword 265
NO CLASS March 26th, April 2nd April 9th April 16th - 4 weeks OFF then we schedule the in person celebration and begin a new book