Philosophy

Have you ever thought about going back to get a degree in your topic here?

I have. Many times.

Yet, I have never been able to personally justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to get a formal degree that may or may not provide a return on that investment. I signed up to do an MBA program several years ago with the University of Illinois, but ended up never taking a single class when I found out that most graduates with that degree don’t make significantly more than their non-MBA degree holding peers.

I recently read the book The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. If you are unfamiliar, it is an overview of Adlerian Psychology, also known as Individual Psychology.

I’ll admit that I had never heard of Alfred Adler or the psychology he was a proponent of, but I am glad that I gave this book a read. Unlike many psychology or self-help books, this one is written in the form of a narrative dialogue between a student and a mentor, which makes it very easy to read.