Peter MuReading Journal

May 19, 2025

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi

That is not because the world is complicated. It’s because you are making the world complicated.

1:35 PM

None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to. The world you see is different from the one I see, and it’s impossible to share your world with anyone else. YOUTH: How can

1:35 PM

we do not think about past ‘causes’, but rather about present ‘goals’.

2:16 PM

the self being determined not by our experiences themselves, but by *the meaning we give them.*

2:26 PM

I couldn’t help it; I just blew my top. I yelled at him at the top of my lu

2:30 PM

It is solely that you got angry so that you could shout. In other words, in order to fulfil the goal of shouting, you created the emotion of anger.

2:32 PM