Today we're talking with Todd Cashin, author of the upside of your dark side,

why being your whole self, not just your good self, drives success and fulfillment.

This book and this discussion is an interesting counterpoint to the idea that we always have to be positive and happy

and why these emotions might actually harm our ability to get things done and achieve the results we want.

We'll discover that happiness sometimes backfires and bad emotional states are sometimes good.

We'll also explore the concept of avoidance, how we as Americans especially are addicted to avoiding discomfort.

This isn't just an American problem but us here in the states are particularly prone to this

and we'll learn how to be comfortable with negative emotions while also making sure that we know how to control them

so we don't turn into the office drill sergeant in the name of results outcome or achievement.

What I found really interesting here was that these negative emotions that we're looking at that often we try to surprise

actually become more useful than let's just be cheerful and happy all the time.

Functional anger, functional sort of discontent with the status quo and unhappiness when it's not chronically part of our identity

is actually more useful than this all-time positivity.

So I really enjoyed this episode and I think you all will too and don't forget we have a worksheet for this episode

so you can make sure you solidify your understandings of the key takeaways here from Todd.

That link is in the show notes along with everything else you might need

at jordanharbanger.com slash podcast.

All right here's Todd Castin.

So in the book of course it's telling us look every emotion is useful.

The concept of wholeness is something that you discuss at length.

Tell us what wholeness really means in the sense in the case that you use it in the book.

Yes so wholeness is basically the ability to access all the psychological resources at your disposal

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