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Book #30: 🎧 Audiobook. I finished listening to this on the beach at OBX. This self-help book interprets and explains Adlerian psychology. The audiobook is done as a conversation between a young man and an older man. I did find it helpful and have already begun practicing what I learned. It is challenging, but hopefully will bring more peace to my life.

When you realize you are feeling angry in an interaction with someone, it is because you have been challenged to a power struggle. Even if you win the power struggle, it sets the course for revenge. The only thing you can do is recognize it and step back from the interaction. Anger is only a tool. There is no need for it. Simply use language. You don‘t need other people to submit to your rightness. Other people can think what they want.

I‘ve been busy with the start of the new school year and took a couple weeks off reading, so this is the first book I‘ve finished this month! It is translated from Japanese and explains the ideas of psychologist Alfred Adler in dialogue form.

“But if you change your lifestyle- the way of giving meaning to the world and yourself-then both your way of interacting with the world and your behavior will have to change as well.�

“Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself, and you are the one who decides how you live.�

This is one I've consumed every word of! What a revelatory piece of work. Anyone that can, must take the time to read this one.

Better than Great.