Some problems with allowing the emotion of anger to motivate your words and actions...
1. Anger biases our attention so that we narrow down the scope of our focus and selectively leave out information that would lead to a more accurate and balanced appraisal of complex situations.
2. Anger tends to be associated with a slew of cognitive distortions such as mind-reading, over-generalization, etc.
3. Anger is associated with poorer problem-solving ability, especially in complex situations like those requiring creative thinking / social problem-solving.
4. Anger leads people to underestimate risk and they're therefore more prone to place themselves and others in danger, e.g., boxers or martial artists becoming enraged and dropping their guard to lash out at their opponent, thereby making themselves more vulnerable.
5. Anger leads to ruminative thinking styles, which are known to exacerbate negative emotions like anxiety and depression, and can waste hours of a person's time, taking their attention away from other vital tasks.
6. Anger tends to lead to poorer and less effective interpersonal communication styles, i.e., more aggression and less assertiveness. You often won't get your point across and if you do you'll potentially alienate other people in the process.
7. Anger leads to impulsive behaviour and snap decision making, which often has poorer outcomes.
8. Anger impairs empathic understanding, which is necessary in order to deal with other people, even our enemies, effectively. Think of a great general or a detective so enraged that he can't get inside the head of the enemy he's trying to outsmart.
9. Anger leads to violence and verbal abuse. Even when it starts small, anger is notoriously prone to escalation.
10. People who are angry, as even Socrates noted, tend to make their enemies worse, e.g., by taunting and provoking them to do more of the things that triggered the anger in the first place. (The Internet is rife with this sort of mind-game.)
11. Anger is associated with coronary heart disease and other chronic health problems.
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