Ali gives away his copy of The Courage to Be Disliked to a viewer who comments with their Instagram username (2019)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2019-05-02) · owner: Ali
About: The Courage to Be Disliked, Instagram
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-30 | asked | Ali gives away his physical copy of The Courage to Be Disliked: viewers who leave a comment with their Instagram username enter a random draw, and he will write something in the front and include some of his favourite highlights. | Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal 00:04:43 |
| 2019-05-02 | result reported | The winner of Ali's giveaway of The Courage to Be Disliked is Carmen Calzon (as heard), a medical student at the University of Barcelona; Ali will get his address on Instagram and mail the book. → refers to Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal | Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga: its subtitle sounds corny and self-helpy, but the book is really good. — 00:00:28
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ali finds Alfred Adler, whose theories The Courage to Be Disliked uses, pretty cool and his theories pretty legit. — 00:00:58
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: The Courage to Be Disliked is written as a dialogue: a hot-headed youth visits a philosopher and, over five sessions, argues that life is hard while the philosopher reframes his problems. — 00:01:38
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ichiro Kishimi (quoted): The first night of The Courage to Be Disliked denies trauma: our current problems are not caused by our past; we want the problem and use the past as a post hoc justification. — 00:02:56
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ichiro Kishimi (quoted): The second night of The Courage to Be Disliked argues that all problems are interpersonal relationship problems. — 00:03:25
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ichiro Kishimi (quoted): The third night of The Courage to Be Disliked, "discard other people's tasks", holds that how other people think about you is their responsibility, so you need not worry about it. — 00:03:25
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says The Courage to Be Disliked did not really change his worldview, because having read a lot about stoicism he was already fairly sympathetic to the philosopher's view. — 00:03:55
- 2019-03-30 · Monthly Favourites #7 - Ali Abdaal — Ali finds The Courage to Be Disliked not at all like the classic self-help books he tends to read and enjoy. — 00:03:55