Getting angry may help you achieve your goals, study suggests
independent.co.uk
Getting angry could help you achieve your goals, new research suggests.
Often perceived as a negative emotion, anger can actually be a powerful motivator for people to meet challenging targets in their lives.
It is useful in achieving more challenging goals, but does not appear to be linked to easier tasks, the study suggests.
The findings suggest emotions that are often considered negative, such as anger, boredom or sadness, can be useful.
Lead author Heather Lench, a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A and M University, USA, said: “People often believe that a state of happiness is ideal, and the majority of people consider the pursuit of happiness a major life goal.
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Anger makes you impatient. Impatience leads to carelessness. Carelessness leads to failure.
I work in academia and after Covid, I yelled back at my boss for the first time. Said what i needed to say and still am employed and they stopped doing what they were doing that pissed the most patient employee in the building off.
Good on you. Having worked in the same environment, more people (“the subordinates”) need to do this instead of feed into the passive-aggressive emails, a brainstorming committee to address the issue, workshops… you know the drill.
I even gave HR a run for their money, told them "things don't have to fucking be like this!" (we're all finally unionized as of last year).
Eh. Anger can make you decisive and actually enhance your patience.
You're probably thinking of rage.
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If you can't control your anger and allow it to make you impatient and careless, that's far more on you as an individual than on the idea of anger.
Plenty of people are quite capable of being quietly, patiently, absolutely fucking furious.