Do get mad

摘要

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy." So wrote Aristotle, more than 2000 years ago, in his classic work The Art of Rhetoric. His words don't quite square with our modern concept of anger. Today, we tend to think of it as a destructive emotion that can wreck relationships and blight careers.