The Courage to Be Hated Part 1

Life is determined in the here and now.

When I saw "The Courage to Be Hated" I wondered what the courage to be hated is? Why does it take courage to be hated? This book discusses through the dialogue between philosophers and young people, and after understanding Adler's thought through dialogue, the troubled youth becomes suddenly enlightened, which takes us step by step into Adler psychology and Adler thought. The philosopher began by asking three philosophical questions: Who am I? Where am I from? Where will I go?

People are bound by the past, relationships, and the future, resulting in troubles and self-unhappiness. Chapter One Adler helps us get rid of the first bondage from the past.

In Adler's science, the so-called psychological symptoms are not the product of past experiences, but serve the "purpose" of the present. For example, teenagers who do not want to go out of the house use teleology to explain that they create uneasy emotions because they do not want to go outside, and from the theory of cause, they show that they cannot go out because of uneasiness. Adler's teleology says that "whatever happened in previous lives has no effect on how you live your life in the future." Through teleology, Adler liberates the ego from the past.

What matters is not what is given, but how we use what is given; what determines us is not our past experiences, but the meaning we ourselves give to them. People are unhappy not because of the past or circumstances, but because they lack the "courage to be happy." It is the "self" that complicates life and makes it difficult to attain happiness, life is determined at this moment, if people live in the "what if... What will happen... In the assumption of such a thing, it cannot be changed.

In his book What Is Life, Schrödinger mentions: "For meaning, there is no past and future, only the present, including memories and expectations.