This week, we are finally DONE reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi. Thank you all so much for following along and we hope you learned and enjoyed this read as much as we did.

On the 9th episode, Sharan and Alfred reflect on how they turned the small ideas and lessons from this wonderful read into actions in their everyday lives. We talk about our favorite take homes from the season, and also reveal a BIG announcement! Stay tuned..

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week.

On the 8th episode, Sharan and Alfred discuss the importance of living the journey, and how it can lead to a happier more gratifying life. Together, they explore the Philosopher's concept of life as a series of dots instead of lines, and reflect on why approaching life in this way is paramount in finding happiness..

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week.

On this seventh episode, Sharan and Alfred discuss the importance of removing hierarchy from our relationships, and how it can lead to a happier more gratifying life. Together, they explore the Philosopher's concept of Horizontal and Vertical relationships, and reflect on why approaching everyone as an equal is paramount in building authentic connections with people.

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week. 

On this sixth episode, we discuss how our natural human 'inclination' to be liked and loved by everyone around us is actually the root of unhappiness in our lives and can take over one's identity. Alfred and Sharan talk about their experiences going against the grain, and importantly, how they grew from these experiences. 

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week. 

This weeks conversation was centered around how we often get stuck focusing on the expectations from other people, resulting us in living a life for them, and not us. Alfred and Sharan talk about how they can see instances of falling into this trap in their own lives, and how they plan on fixing it in the future. 

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week. The conversation was centered around how competition is at the root of so many of our interpersonal relationships, and how in order to really excel, be happy, and have longevity in our action we must shift that focus inward to ourselves.

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week. In the lessons from this week, we talked about the relationship between inferiority and superiority, acts of boasting as a warning sign, and the mental state of one that feels inferior. 

We continue reading The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi this week and in our lessons from the section, we touch on themes surrounding the fear of change and the courage needed to take the first step, unhappiness, and the idea of controlling the present. 

In our first ever episode, join us as we start The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi. We introduce the podcast and go over themes surrounding past experiences and the meaning we give to them, meaning of life and its relation to religion, and the condition of human happiness.