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The Anger Fallacy: Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset
Featuring the wisdom and wit Confucius, The Bible, Yoda, Billy Connolly, George Bernard Shaw, Jerry Seinfeld, Dale Carnegie, Ricky Gervais, Larry David, and many more.
Back in 2013, this ground-breaking, best-selling book told us the inconvenient truth that anger is such a toxic human emotion that we should try to avoid it at all times - even when we think it might be helpful!
Today, this book's message is as vital and relevant as ever.
Anger and division on matters such as health, sex, gender, politics, climate, race, religion, and culture are expressed so freely across social media that we can feel swept up in the emotion, compelled to take our own stand and join our angry voice with others. After all, how else do we create the change we want to see? It is our right, is it not, to state our claims with force, use anger to drive action and strongly oppose those who disagree?
Well, actually, all anger does is hurt both your mental health and the health and wellbeing of those around you. It is rarely ever helpful to one's own benefit, let alone any discussion, debate, argument or conversation. Its destructive effects are much more toxic than previously acknowledged. In fact, when we are angry, we hold an irrational mindset that blinds us to self-righteous judgements propelling our behaviour in the wrong ways.
But it isn't always easy to avoid getting angry. We need to learn a lot more about anger, its uses, its origins, and how we might substitute empathy and understanding in its place. We need to learn why we get angry and how to try and remove our anger. And you can do that right now by simply reading this book.
And that's no hollow advertising pitch by the way. The Anger Fallacy was written by clinical psychologists Ross Menzies and Steven Laurent and has been successfully used in therapy.
Back in 2013, this ground-breaking, best-selling book told us the inconvenient truth that anger is such a toxic human emotion that we should try to avoid it at all times - even when we think it might be helpful!
Today, this book's message is as vital and relevant as ever.
Anger and division on matters such as health, sex, gender, politics, climate, race, religion, and culture are expressed so freely across social media that we can feel swept up in the emotion, compelled to take our own stand and join our angry voice with others. After all, how else do we create the change we want to see? It is our right, is it not, to state our claims with force, use anger to drive action and strongly oppose those who disagree?
Well, actually, all anger does is hurt both your mental health and the health and wellbeing of those around you. It is rarely ever helpful to one's own benefit, let alone any discussion, debate, argument or conversation. Its destructive effects are much more toxic than previously acknowledged. In fact, when we are angry, we hold an irrational mindset that blinds us to self-righteous judgements propelling our behaviour in the wrong ways.
But it isn't always easy to avoid getting angry. We need to learn a lot more about anger, its uses, its origins, and how we might substitute empathy and understanding in its place. We need to learn why we get angry and how to try and remove our anger. And you can do that right now by simply reading this book.
And that's no hollow advertising pitch by the way. The Anger Fallacy was written by clinical psychologists Ross Menzies and Steven Laurent and has been successfully used in therapy.
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257 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 20, 2013
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March 31, 2014
Honestly believe this book has the potential to change people's lives. I'm pretty stubborn, and not exactly the calmest person I know, but The Anger Fallacy really challenged a lot of my thoughts and beliefs about this basic human emotion. It was also a surprisingly funny and light-hearted book, considering the subject matter, and I found myself laughing out loud (in public...) at some pages.
What I found interesting is that the book basically eradicates any causes for anger (aka says "if you are angry, you're not really seeing the world properly. Here's why...") rather than just trying to calm the reader down or "manage" their anger, as most self-help type books do. The arguments for anger being quite literally a "fallacy" were well-constructed and, at least for me, difficult to find fault with.
While I'm sure it may prove challenging to immediately implement the ideas of the book (they are, after all, very different to our standard view of anger and the world), I did find that when I sat and read the book for 2 hours straight immediately before starting my 8 hour shift in retail, I managed to survive the day without a single iota of irritation, which is an extraordinary accomplishment for me. So there's hope for us all.
What I found interesting is that the book basically eradicates any causes for anger (aka says "if you are angry, you're not really seeing the world properly. Here's why...") rather than just trying to calm the reader down or "manage" their anger, as most self-help type books do. The arguments for anger being quite literally a "fallacy" were well-constructed and, at least for me, difficult to find fault with.
While I'm sure it may prove challenging to immediately implement the ideas of the book (they are, after all, very different to our standard view of anger and the world), I did find that when I sat and read the book for 2 hours straight immediately before starting my 8 hour shift in retail, I managed to survive the day without a single iota of irritation, which is an extraordinary accomplishment for me. So there's hope for us all.
March 29, 2021
Transformative in my growth as a human being in accepting other people for who they are.
August 10, 2021
One to get back to and constantly review to keep myself in check.
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