The title is likely misunderstood by the american mind (in my opinion)

This is a wonderful picture of Adlerian Psychology, so far as I know. It was my first intro to Adler save for once in college a friend had shares ideas with our then group. Though the book presents it as Japanese thought and a little research suggests Adler’s ideas have had significant impact in Japan. They have NOT had much impact in the US to my knowledge and experience. I plan to study this more. The thoughts presented are so freeing to my way of being and having been. It feels like right thinking. I recently listened to a book of Adler’s but first went through this a few years back and now again it called to me, so to speak. I’m grateful.

I would say this is more about the courage to thinking correctly, to connect with others for the reasons that will serve you, to imagine yourself as no more or less than what you are, to be happy, and quite a bit more. The courage to be disliked is really I think, if applied the way the book explains, to have not a thought much at all if you are or are not being disliked, to recognize that is the other person’s task and not yours. Yours is to live authentically and I suppose then to decide for yourself what you like.