Split-screen illustration showing a hunched young man in a cool blue room with shadowy figures pointing behind him, a broken chain across the center, and—on the warm golden side—an elderly philosopher’s profile above a sunlit path where a lone figure walks forward beneath birds and an origami crane, symbolizing freedom from approval-seeking (featured image for The Courage to Be Disliked).

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

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