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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: Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
Narrated by: January LaVoy, Noah Galvin
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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 Success Psychology Relationships Happiness Inspiring Thought-Provoking Young Adult

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Irritating Youth Voice

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.

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

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 🙂

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annoying student voice actor should do something else

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

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Brilliant follow up!

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

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Great followed up from their first book

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 ….

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philosophical ease

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

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Just as engaging as the first

A great refocusing and an extension of the concepts of the first book. All of the outstanding questions raised from the first book were answered for me in this text

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Youth narration is not good!

The first book narration was great, but unfortunately in this one the narration of youth is not good , it's sometimes unnecessarily loud and disturbing.

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Please re-record

I don't see why you needed to add the extra voice actors. Truly awful youth voice actor.

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Very good

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.

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