Anger Good For Career Boost

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 13:35

Getting angry is not such a bad thing, it could in fact boost your professional and personal lives. A new study has revealed that to attain true happiness it is necessary to get angry.

Staying cool was found to damage a person's career and create dissatisfaction in personal life. The study involved 824 men and women and was conducted by The Harvard Study of Adult Development. It was found out that people who bottled up their frustrations most likely hit a glass ceiling in their careers and have disappointing personal lives.

However, those volunteers whose lives was monitored since 1995, it was found that those who learnt to harness and channelise their anger did well professionally and enjoyed a nice relationship with their close ones.

Professor George Vaillant, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, said: "People think of anger as a terribly dangerous emotion and are encouraged to practise 'positive thinking', but we find that approach is self-defeating and ultimately a damaging denial of dreadful reality."

"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," the expert added.

Vaillant clearly states that while a sudden outburst of anger is destructive, but if channelised could be beneficial. Bottling up emotions leads to depressions, health problems and communication problems.

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