#rationality #humans # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Anger is a negative sum game]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Anger >As an emotion, anger is rarely productive—in you or the person you’re negotiating with. It releases stress hormones and neurochemicals that disrupt your ability to properly evaluate and respond to situations. And it blinds you to the fact that you’re angry in the first place, which gives you a false sense of confidence. >~ [[Chris Voss - Never Split the Difference Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It]]  >Yet when you are called stupid, it makes you angry. Because something within you entertains the possibility that you might, in fact, be. Then something else within you grows irritated by the idea that you might be. This internal conflict manifests itself as anger. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]]   >That anger is not as reactionary as you think it to be. It is a weapon that you enjoy using in order to protect your ego and to bolster it. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]]