May 19, 2025
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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.”
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