Nexus vs. The Courage to Be Disliked

A Bridge of Ideas

What connects your exploration into the grand sweep of human history in 'Nexus' with the intimately personal philosophy of 'The Courage to Be Disliked'? Both books, despite their vastly different domains, offer profound insights into how we construct our reality and our place within it. Harari, through the lens of grand historical narratives, reveals how shared fictions and collective beliefs shape our species, a concept that surprisingly echoes in Kishimi and Koga's Adlerian psychology, which posits that individual unhappiness stems from social interdependence and the acceptance of community tasks, essentially our own internalized narratives about our worth and belonging.