Emotional awareness and self-reflection in managing anger and triggers

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The ability to identify and choose a response between stimulus and reaction is important. Emotions like anger and rage indicate something missing in life. In business, experiencing anger can be a prompt to analyze what's lacking, such as competence in a certain area, and to use the emotional trigger as an opportunity for targeted thinking and improvement. This approach of removing emotion and focusing on what's missing can be valuable in personal and professional contexts.

In this episode, I speak with Brian Johnson, the Founder & CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation. Brian is the author of a new book called Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential.

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Highlights

* What Brian’s new book Arete is about

* How Brian has been influenced by Stoicism

* What is “Targeted Thinking” – can you explain to listeners what you mean by that and why it’s so important?

* You talk quite a bit about wisdom. I like to ask different people how they would define what they mean by the word wisdom.

* You talk in the book about being a parent – what do you think the main things to bear in mind are when trying to be a role model or offer guidance to our children?

* How can we avoid becoming victims of our own anger?

* How people can find out more about what Brian is doing through Heroic

Links

* Arete: Activate your Heroic Potential

* Order the Book on Amazon

* Podcast

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