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Negative emotions such as fear and anger are inborn and are of tremendous importance. Negative emotions are often crucial for survival: careful experiments such as ours have documented that negative emotions narrow and focus attention so we can concentrate on the trees instead of the forest.This is what Professor George Vaillant, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School had to say. Anger can be both constructive and destructive. It is anybody's guess as to which type of anger can help you boost your career – It indeed is constructive anger. In a previous post we discussed about the importance of controlled aggression. In contrast to it, one does not need to suppress or, control his anger. Instead what is required is to channelize it properly. What is anger?
Anger is a reaction to the feeling of helplessness, when you realize that you want to do something, but you are not able to do it.Professor George Valliant, further has to say that,
"People think of anger as a terribly dangerous emotion and are encouraged to practice ‘positive thinking', but we find that approach is self-defeating and...
