What is the right way to get mad? How to manage anger
The question is how you do that without letting it go too far. With these reservations, the expression of authentic anger can be entirely appropriate with certain people in certain situations.
A healthy society is not an anger-free society.Ĭaution around anger is certainly smart, as is the knowledge that it should not be overused, or used with everyone. Positivity alone is insufficient to the task of helping us navigate social interactions and relationships. It’s a mistake to presume that kindness, compassion, love, and fairness line up on one side of a continuum, and anger, rage, and dislike, on another side. Altruism is often born from anger when it comes to mobilizing other people and creating support for a cause, no emotion is stronger. When anger arises, we feel called upon to prevent or terminate immediate threats to our welfare, or to the well-being of those we care about.
Be curious about others, yourself, and the world this month
