Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga's book The Courage to Be Disliked offers a way of looking at life and a guide to intentional living.
- Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself, and you are the one who decides how you live.
- One needs to think not "What will this person give me?" but, rather, "What can I give to this person?" That is commitment to the community.
- Admitting mistakes, conveying words of apology, and stepping down from power struggle - none of these things is defeat. The pursuit of superiority is not something that is carried out through competition with other people.
- Life is a series of moments: It is a series of moments called "now." We can live only in the here and now. Our lives exist only in moments. The world is simple, and life is too. One just needs to live each moment earnestly.
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