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Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking: Manga for Success
Strengthen your confidence, positivity, and resilience with Manga for Success! Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Manga for Success will show you how to change your perspective to improve your wellbeing. This manga tells the story of Reisa, who recently started a new job at an advertising agency. Overwhelmed and stressed by the new workload and criticism from her boss, her mental health starts to suffer. One day, Reisa runs into Tsuyoshi, an old college friend. Captivated by Tsuyoshi's strong self-esteem and confidence, she asks for his advice. To help Reina relieve her mental fatigue, break out of her negative mindset, and rebuild her confidence, Tsuyoshi suggests resilience tips he adopted abroad. Following his advice, Reina addresses the roots of her habitual negativity, begins to positively control her emotions, starts to turn around her relationships with her peers, and becomes the best version of herself.
Discover why manga for businesspeople is so wildly popular in Japan, China, Korea, and elsewhere. Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Manga for Success is fun to read―and it could just change your life!
Discover why manga for businesspeople is so wildly popular in Japan, China, Korea, and elsewhere. Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Manga for Success is fun to read―and it could just change your life!
240 pages, Paperback
Published April 25, 2023
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December 30, 2025
I like this series' format - alternating text sections and manga sections helps make topics that might otherwise bore me to tears a little easier to deal with. In this case, the manga sections follow Reisa Suto, a 27-year-old woman who recently changed jobs and is now working at an advertising agency. She's super stressed and feels like she keeps doing things wrong. Her supervisor seems to do nothing but criticize her. The one bright spot in her day is when she's on her own time and can try out local cake shops. Then Hasegawa Gou takes over as director for one of the project Reisa is working on and messed up, and she's shocked to learn that this confident person was her laid-back senior in college. With Hasegawa's help, Reisa learns to change her perspective, keep an eye out for her assumptions, and accept help from others when she needs it.
I hate to say this, since Kuze sounded sincere in his desire to help people gain confidence and resilience, and his writing on staying positive and motivated while learning business English was kind of touching, but I'm not sure this book would actually help anyone who really needed it. Most of the advice was stuff I've seen discussed in a lot of other works, and there wasn't a lot about how to get started with some of it if you really had no clue. Kuze's advice for gaining resilience and confidence basically boiled down to "it's something you have to train, so take on challenges that stretch your abilities but that aren't impossible." The social support stuff was more about recognizing the support already present in your life that you may not be using than finding that support to begin with.
The most unusual thing that author did was present people's assumptions as dogs, so there's the righteous dog, the loser dog, the worrywart dog, the abandoning dog, the apologetic dog, the criticism dog, and the apathetic dog. There's a chart where you're supposed to identify the negative emotion you're feeling, which then tells you which "dog" you're probably dealing with. So if you're dealing with a lot of anxiety at work, you may have the worrywart or abandoning dog, either a pessimistic mindset or a powerless mindset. Where things fell apart for me was when it came to how to deal with the "dogs." Kuze presented three options: banish it, accept it, or train/tame it. The whole dog thing made "banish it" seem kind of sad. Plus, on the whole, I found it easiest to understand how train/tame might work (don't automatically assume that your assumptions are true, try to change your viewpoint).
I did at least really enjoy the manga portion of this, even though it seemed a bit odd when literal assumption dogs were suddenly introduced to the story and then just as suddenly dropped.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
I hate to say this, since Kuze sounded sincere in his desire to help people gain confidence and resilience, and his writing on staying positive and motivated while learning business English was kind of touching, but I'm not sure this book would actually help anyone who really needed it. Most of the advice was stuff I've seen discussed in a lot of other works, and there wasn't a lot about how to get started with some of it if you really had no clue. Kuze's advice for gaining resilience and confidence basically boiled down to "it's something you have to train, so take on challenges that stretch your abilities but that aren't impossible." The social support stuff was more about recognizing the support already present in your life that you may not be using than finding that support to begin with.
The most unusual thing that author did was present people's assumptions as dogs, so there's the righteous dog, the loser dog, the worrywart dog, the abandoning dog, the apologetic dog, the criticism dog, and the apathetic dog. There's a chart where you're supposed to identify the negative emotion you're feeling, which then tells you which "dog" you're probably dealing with. So if you're dealing with a lot of anxiety at work, you may have the worrywart or abandoning dog, either a pessimistic mindset or a powerless mindset. Where things fell apart for me was when it came to how to deal with the "dogs." Kuze presented three options: banish it, accept it, or train/tame it. The whole dog thing made "banish it" seem kind of sad. Plus, on the whole, I found it easiest to understand how train/tame might work (don't automatically assume that your assumptions are true, try to change your viewpoint).
I did at least really enjoy the manga portion of this, even though it seemed a bit odd when literal assumption dogs were suddenly introduced to the story and then just as suddenly dropped.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
November 17, 2023
{Italian version only}
Un libro di coaching motivazionale semplice, ma decisamente tanto efficace. Sono una persona nota per avere problemi di autostima e resilienza, perciò mi è risultato molto utile leggere questo manuale; certo, non si può pretendere che la sola lettura cambi da zero a cento il proprio modus vivendi, però mi ha offerto nuovi spunti e nuove prospettive per analizzare ciò che vivo e soprattutto come mi comporto nei confronti di altri individui, specie nei contesti lavorativi.
Gli inserti in formato manga sono stati anch'essi utili al fine di comprendere al meglio la situazione, proprio perché rendono quantomeno "tangibile" e pratico ciò che si sta cercando di apprendere. Reisa è un personaggio comune, per cui è facile impersonarvisi: ha un lavoro che a tratti è frustrante, colleghi che non sempre sono disposti a venirle incontro, un fidanzato un po' passivo in determinate situazioni; tuttavia, ha anche persone su cui può contare, un hobby ed una passione molto forti, una prospettiva di cambiamento che effettivamente modificherà in maniera radicale il suo modo di vivere le cose.
Insomma, un ottimo approccio alla resilienza, al pensiero positivo e all'autostima. Lo consiglio vivamente a chi vuole introdursi al tema, in modo da poter affrontare ben altre letture più complesse - ripeto, però, che questo libro non ha NULLA da invidiare a tutti gli altri tomi, anzi.
Un libro di coaching motivazionale semplice, ma decisamente tanto efficace. Sono una persona nota per avere problemi di autostima e resilienza, perciò mi è risultato molto utile leggere questo manuale; certo, non si può pretendere che la sola lettura cambi da zero a cento il proprio modus vivendi, però mi ha offerto nuovi spunti e nuove prospettive per analizzare ciò che vivo e soprattutto come mi comporto nei confronti di altri individui, specie nei contesti lavorativi.
Gli inserti in formato manga sono stati anch'essi utili al fine di comprendere al meglio la situazione, proprio perché rendono quantomeno "tangibile" e pratico ciò che si sta cercando di apprendere. Reisa è un personaggio comune, per cui è facile impersonarvisi: ha un lavoro che a tratti è frustrante, colleghi che non sempre sono disposti a venirle incontro, un fidanzato un po' passivo in determinate situazioni; tuttavia, ha anche persone su cui può contare, un hobby ed una passione molto forti, una prospettiva di cambiamento che effettivamente modificherà in maniera radicale il suo modo di vivere le cose.
Insomma, un ottimo approccio alla resilienza, al pensiero positivo e all'autostima. Lo consiglio vivamente a chi vuole introdursi al tema, in modo da poter affrontare ben altre letture più complesse - ripeto, però, che questo libro non ha NULLA da invidiare a tutti gli altri tomi, anzi.
July 9, 2025
Reisa Suto ha comenzado un nuevo trabajo en el cual se siente infravalorada tanto por su jefa como por los que la rodean, se siente agotada física y mentalmente. Cuando se encuentra a uno de sus antiguos compañeros de universidad se sorprende por como para él es tan fácil afrontar todas las situaciones que se le presentan. Gracias a él, Reisa comenzará a mirar las cosas de distinta manera.
Resiliencia, confianza y pensamiento positivo, es un manga motivacional sencillo que nos brinda ideas y diferentes perspectivas de situaciones para analizar y solucionar, situaciones en el ámbito laboral que nos pueden estar afectando en dicho entorno como en el personal.
La protagonista tiene que batallar ante situaciones de estrés laboral que poco a poco la irán afectando en su confianza y emociones. Es aquí donde este libro te da pequeños consejos de como analizar dichas situaciones, afrontarlas y darles solución de una forma asertiva, siempre fortaleciendo y destacando nuestras fortalezas y aumentando nuestra resiliencia.
Si no sabes qué es la resiliencia y cómo poder llegar a ella, este manga es una excelente opción que puede ayudarte a entenderla.
Resiliencia, confianza y pensamiento positivo, es un manga motivacional sencillo que nos brinda ideas y diferentes perspectivas de situaciones para analizar y solucionar, situaciones en el ámbito laboral que nos pueden estar afectando en dicho entorno como en el personal.
La protagonista tiene que batallar ante situaciones de estrés laboral que poco a poco la irán afectando en su confianza y emociones. Es aquí donde este libro te da pequeños consejos de como analizar dichas situaciones, afrontarlas y darles solución de una forma asertiva, siempre fortaleciendo y destacando nuestras fortalezas y aumentando nuestra resiliencia.
Si no sabes qué es la resiliencia y cómo poder llegar a ella, este manga es una excelente opción que puede ayudarte a entenderla.
May 30, 2023
Interesting but I feel like I already knew most of the advice. Cute manga story, though!
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