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Can You Get Motivated by Anger

Anger can motivate us to respond to injustice. There are various ways to fix a problem. We have to get mad first, then channel that anger into fighting back, which doesn’t have to be with aggression or hostility.

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Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin · July 10th, 2019

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