In many ways I feel that anger has been one of my greatest assets – but ONLY because I have channelled it in the right direction.
No one wants to work for a leader who is perpetually angry, or whose first response is anger. And yet for many business leaders working under extremely high pressure, stress can make anger their default emotion.
Instead of trying to bottle it up, this is powerful energy that you can capitalise on.
It’s the metaphorical concept of making one’s “Ranbhoomi” (the arena of battle) into a “Rangbhoomi” (place of concert, art and performance) as shared by Devdutt Pattanaik in his book My Hanuman Chalisa.
I’m sure we’ve all experienced times where we stepped up and performed better than we ever thought possible just to prove someone who doubted us wrong.
My book chronicles how I turned my anger, which was a consistent theme into my life, into the fuel that drove myself and my business to great success, without making enemies or spreading unhappiness.
My book launches in a couple of weeks!