the courage to be disliked

books

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

  • people move towards the goals they set
  • people determine their own lives according to the meaning we give to those past experiences
  • we make out of past experience what suits our purpose. we are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining.
  • we live in our own subjective worlds. make life simple.
  • the past doesn’t matter. the past does not cause anything. there is only present goals.
  • etiology – the study of causation
  • teleology – the study of the purpose of a given phenomenon
  • we are not controlled by emotion, only present goals
  • people are not controlled by emotion or the past
  • often, people are held back by their lack of courage