If we go our whole lives, seeking to feel happy based on how much people like us,

or seeking to be happy based on how superior we are to other people in the means of possessions,

of money, or of status, then we will forever spend our lives sad.

And the reason why is because that is a lose, lose game.

Hey guys, what's up? And welcome back to another Coffee Talk podcast episode.

Today I am doing a chat or having a chat a little bit.

Today I'm going to be hosting a conversation about the courage to be happy and the courage

to be disliked. And technically, today's chat is a book brew based off of these two books in

particular. Grab your drinks, let me know what you're having down below or what you're doing

down below. If you're not sipping on a beverage in our virtual cafe, what are you doing? Are you

walking? Are you driving? Are you listening? Or are you watching? It's going to be so hard for me

not to chug this right now because it's so refreshing. I made myself a lemonade soda water mixture

with like raspberry and s ii and oh my gosh, it's so good. I've just combined all of my book notes

from both of these books into one chat. More so from the courage to be disliked though because the

courage to be happy is an equally amazing book. It was written secondary two. The courage to be

disliked. It does a lot more into parenting and teaching and more so. Like how to basically guide

the youth. I found it interesting even in hindsight to my own upbringing to read this book as well.

My favorite thing about both of these books is the way they are written, specifically the fact that

the entire premise behind each chapter from the start to the finish is there is a youth that comes

to see a philosopher, specifically a philosopher who studies medlearian psychology. The youth in the book

really comes at the philosopher with a lot of the questions, a lot of the challenges that would be

proposed by people in our time, in our society, in our culture, in our generations against this

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