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.
It’s true, anger can make a motherfucker real productive.
The question is whether or not what they produce will be good for anyone else.
I fully agree that anger can be directed towards good goals, however, it can also be directed towards totally dangerous goals, both getting their drive to succeed in their plans from “anger.”
The person whose anger leads them to create something that helps people, or prevents the horrible violence they suffered, is doing a service for those around them, born out of the anger they had at a broken system. There have been many like this throughout history. Fred Rogers took the pains of his childhood and created Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for similar children, who were maybe bullied and needed a friend, much like he did in his youth.
The person whose anger leads them on a shooting rampage to kill innocents because they’re angry at a broken system and too dickless to know what to do other than lash out violently are the problem.
We need more Fred Rogers’ and fewer mass shooters.
It depends.