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Radio Headspace

Dealing with Anger in The Workplace, with Liz Fosslien

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Liz Fosslien, coauthor of 'No Hard Feelings,' delves into strategies for managing workplace anger, with evolutionary insights from the Navigating Change series on Headspace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Domino's price slice.

0:07.0

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0:12.0

Yet we're making cuts too.

0:14.0

Domino!

0:15.0

In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend, charges and areas may apply.

0:18.0

Tous and see, see Domino's dot code.

0:20.0

UK. Let's be studio. Hi, my name is Liz, your guest host this week and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday.

0:39.2

As you know, this week is all about managing emotions in the workplace and today we are

0:44.4

getting into anger. Today I'll discuss anger from an evolutionary

0:49.1

perspective how it can actually be a sign of compassion and how to use it to our benefit.

0:57.1

So first of all, it's very common to feel angry at work.

1:01.2

Molly and I, when we were researching for a book, Big Feelings, we spoke to 1,500 people,

1:06.4

all around the world, all different ages, backgrounds, and every single person has felt

1:12.4

anger at the workplace.

1:14.0

Interestingly though, some of us have been socialized or conditioned to believe that there's

1:20.3

a high cost to anger, or just to believe that you know anger is

1:24.8

something to be avoided it's bad we associated with irrational violence and so

1:29.2

often people who are feeling anger will actually suppress that and feel something else.

1:34.3

So they might describe it as self-blame or irritability or frustration, but actually when you

1:39.4

pull the string a little more, it's anger.

1:43.1

I think people see anger at work as so negative, because we've never learned how to really

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