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Are You Angry? Good!

Are You Angry? Good!

Harness Your Anger and Unleash Its Potential

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Alejandro Betancourt
Nov 06, 2023
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“Use your passion to motivate. Use your anger to energize. Use your hurt to heal. Use your mistakes to mature. And pain, to grow wiser. Don’t let anything go to waste!” — Germany Kent

Rage. Fury. Seeing blurred. We’ve all felt anger’s heat rise within us. And for good reason — anger gets a bad rap. We’re told it breeds failure and destroys relationships. That’s why we try to suppress, ignore, or vent out anger, hoping it will go away.

But what if we’ve got anger all wrong? 

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Emerging perspectives suggest anger is not a destructive force but rather an emotion that — when handled — can unlock powerful motivation and drive.

Now, this may sound crazy if you’ve ever gone Hulk mode and smashed something in anger (guilty as charged!). But stick with me. When understood and channeled, anger contains hidden potential to help you achieve your goals.

The key is recogni…

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