From my own personal experiences with it, anger has been a weakness instead of a strength. It's disorienting, risks me acting rashly, and my display tends to be strange. As such, in the past, I put in a lot of time to learn to keep myself from allowing it to build up and explode, instead finding little ways to let it seep out of my being that allows me to keep myself generally even-keeled. My anger moments are usually surprising, something that comes up jarringly from a mix of sheer outrage at someone's audacity alongside it taking something from me that I can't immediately let go of.
In topics like debate, the first one to lose their temper is usually the one to have lost, their only real argument left being appeal to emotion. Losing your cool can make you appear unprofessional and harder to relate to while pushing your own audience away from you.
Anger however also increases one's drive, certainty, and can for some be a rush instead of a detrimental feeling. In people who are more used to facing it, they tend to reflect traits that show themselves as generally more assertive. Every woman I've been with who has been the take charge type has had some issues in the anger department of some kind, which makes me wonder the connections between assertiveness and anger alongside what ways anger can be healthy.
So, in your life, is anger more of a strength, or a weakness? What are your thoughts on anger?
there is nothing positive about anger. it only feels good to release it. i guess thats a positive.
if you can be 100% sure you can find a good release and you can bottle anger without letting it frustrate you and ruin your day to day life, then it could be something positive. but bottled anger is always frustrating. and finding such a release is not easy.
+ it only feels good because of the adrenaline and your need to release the anger
its a big weakness that could sometimes bring you positives, but those times would be random and lucky, as you didnt think about your actions. i've been learning to control my anger for a very long time now
What about controlled anger? Some people are able to experience feelings of anger, but still steer where it goes, even use it as a tool against others when needed.
I'm inclined to still think of that as bad, a compromise with the emotion itself, but every other emotion has a silver lining, an advantage that comes from the typicality of the feeling, so why not anger?
I've made mastering my anger a goal of mine for a while now.
For me, almost all anger converts to a determination to change the situation or object of intrest. It just doesn't seem rational to let whatevers angering you to keep on doing so. What I've noticed about myself is that my first step into turning my anger into persistence is through careful, calculated planning. I start envisioning different scenarios and outcomes, pros & cons and who would be affected by my actions as well as if they are useful to me. This trait has defined who I am and made some of my best and worst decisions in my life. Hell, it's the reason I chose my username.
Of course this has its own downfalls. I would say my drive was the leading factor into my stalking and unfortunately still is to his day. I feel entitled to my objects of desire as if I deserve them. This drive works in my favor as well, considering my age and the fact I make twice as much as my father and almost 4 times more than anyone in my age group. This drive is the same one that made me choose the hardest task(infantry) in the toughest branch of the U.S. Armed Services.
While the benefits outweigh the costs now, I have a feeling my persistence will be the main contributor to my death one day.
Anger is a emotion that is genetically programed into us. It is there for a reason.
Anger alone, will hinder you more than help you in a fight or argument. But if you can learn to harness the amazing effects that anger provides your body. Then you will become a force to be reckoned with.
Usually it takes age and experience to get to this level. Yet some young fighters are able to do this a lot earlier in life. Because of there older experienced coaches and mentors teaching them, from there own personal experiences.
If you were born without the anger emotion. You would be handicapped in a sense. Anger is for sure a strength.
Anger, for me, used to be a weakness. Over the past 7 years, while I've been working on my self-control, I have also been working on controlling my anger.
My anger is very intense, and very large. It is aimed, mainly at the limitations of my physical existence and the rest of all that physically exists. I used to take it out on other people, and then, it was debilitating. But now... Now it is the most empowering thing in my life.
Regardless of what happens, I will adapt, I will survive, and I will LIVE out of spite. Spite for physical existence, and spite for every negative thought that has ever entered my head. It is because of this anger, that I am incapable of depression. It is because of this anger, that I will never feel emotional pain again. It is because of this anger, that my life will be the greatest I could possibly make it. And THAT is the most optimistic way I can look at things given what I have at my disposal.
Pain tolerance? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11602217
I don't see much use for anger. For me, the only benefit it has ever provided is motivation and some temporary peace of mind, but the truth is there are better ways to motivate yourself and deal with your problems.
