How to be angry

Business Daily

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

From hotheads to curmudgeons, is anger always bad for business? Can anger management techniques help? Or should we put our wrath to profitable use?

Laurence Knight speaks to an entrepreneur who hit the headlines following an air rage incident about his chronic fits of rage. Anger management expert Dr Gina Simmons explains why he may want to consider doing press-ups.

We also hear from Mustafa Nayyem, who helped initiate the bitter Euromaidan protests that brought down Ukraine's last government. Plus evolutionary psychologist Aaron Sell explains the circumstances most likely to bring out our inner beast.

(Picture: Frustrated businessman screaming of disappointment and looking up; Credit: skynesher/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Lawrence Knight. Welcome to a turbulent business daily.
0:06.3	It's just one of those days where you don't want to wake up.
0:09.4	Everybody sucks.
0:11.7	You don't really know why, but you want to justify.
0:14.7	Ripping someone's head off.
0:15.9	Today, we revisit a topic we've looked at before.
0:19.0	How to be angry.
0:22.9	What is anger? Why can it sometimes be so destructive at work? How can we control it? Or is anger, sometimes, the good thing?
0:29.5	The sound The sounds of thousands of Donald Trump supporters chanting lock him up at a rally in Minnesota last week.
0:48.7	Anger, targeted at his then rival Hillary Clinton, helped propel Donald Trump to the US presidency in 2016.
0:57.2	And it appears Donald Trump hopes to sustain that same anger, this time targeted at potential rival
1:02.9	Joe Biden's son, for his re-election bid next year. After all, anger is a powerful political weapon. It gets people's attention, as the Swedish
1:13.8	environmental activist Greta Thunberg demonstrated at the UN earlier this month.
1:18.8	People are suffering. People are dying. And all you can talk about is money and fair tales
1:26.6	of eternal economic growth.
1:29.4	How dare you?
1:31.7	But anger, of course, has a destructive side.
1:35.0	Indeed, a self-destructive side.
1:38.1	The part that I regret was just letting that moment of rage overtake more common sense.
1:43.0	It's an issue I took up on an episode of Business Daily three years ago when Donald Trump
1:47.4	was first elected, and which we're going to replay for you now.
1:51.7	Had I been able to prevent myself from doing that, but wouldn't be talking to you right now.
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