Does anger make you stronger?

[Warachia]

anger makes you mentally slow, physically predictable, and of little to no strategic purpose in a fight, as you have a greater chance of losing than doing any damage at all.

 

[sh0tgunenclave]

physically, yes. I was able to give someone who was bothering me a black eye and nosebleed, when I got really angry.
oddly enough, I don't remember giving him those. Anger bouts like that one are often non-existent, or a blur in my memory. then I come back down to earth and see what I did...=/ I'm not proud of some of the things I've done.

 

[Lazarus Long]

Gooood...
Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and take your father's place at my side!

As George taught us before (or just as, depending on who you ask) he lost his mind and started making movies in order to sell toys, hate and anger might make you temporarily stronger/more determined, but at the cost of blindness, and a penchant for rash, regrettable decisions. Much like your better liquors.

Besides, revenge is best served cold, and all that.

 

[djfranza]

Anger is like duct tape. It's a quick fix, but it won't hold up. In this case, anger is good for a nice burst of strength or motivation, but it subsides relatively quickly, and with it goes your motivation if that was all that was driving you.

If for some reason you are permanently angry, then yes, you'll probably die from....diabetes or something. Anger induced diabetes.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Anger pushes me to succeed, but at the same time builds a wall that prevents me from doing so.

 

[viranimus]

Mentally, Yes. It has the potential if used correctly to give you the drive and ambition to accomplish great things. However it cannot do it alone as it usually needs an accompanying emotion to guide and direct it such as spite.

Physically, absolutely. I say this as someone who had a broom handle broken over my forearm just this week. If there was no anger, the adrenaline would not be present enough in the system to endure the pain it caused. Took roughly 4 hours to calm down enough before the pain of the strike started setting in. Adrenaline allows you to play through the pain, as well as endure more pain. Anger is one of the best tools to drive up levels of adrenaline in the body.

Anger is good. But it takes effort to use it properly and not just go off in berzerker mode which more often than not causes you to make very stupid mistakes.

 

[Kajt]

Well, anger does make me perform better in sports...

I'd say yes, it does.

 

[Miumaru]

Depends. Sometimes if I get mad in an online game, I end up getting stubborn and just end up being a point generator for my enemies.

 

[CobraX]

Yes.

It also makes you stupid.

this....

 

[Harlemura]

I can make a bigger indent in the sofa if I wallop it when I'm angry at a game.
I don't get angry at much else though, so I'm not sure if you can "apply" it to stuff. The few times I do, I'm too busy being angry to do anything useful.

 

[C95J]

sometimes when I am angry I feel as if I am stronger, and can do things easier... except playing games, when I get angry I stop.

 

[Kimarous]

Anger and rage cloud and cripple.
Righteous fury forges resolve.

 

[cmikenike]

It's both, depending on who's in control. Unfortunately it tends to blur the lines if you rely on it too often - but ultimately, in every great human victory, it has been an important, vital tool. Civil rights movements from the suffragettes in the UK to Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid movement in South Africa have used anger extensively - had they been quiet and non-confrontational, it's hard to see how anything would have changed at all.

Yes, because Gandhi didn't get anything done with that old Civil Disobedience shtick.

 

[Serenegoose]

It's both, depending on who's in control. Unfortunately it tends to blur the lines if you rely on it too often - but ultimately, in every great human victory, it has been an important, vital tool. Civil rights movements from the suffragettes in the UK to Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid movement in South Africa have used anger extensively - had they been quiet and non-confrontational, it's hard to see how anything would have changed at all.

Yes, because Gandhi didn't get anything done with that old Civil Disobedience shtick.

Yeah, what do you think civil disobedience is? Do you think they done that whilst going about their days, doing their jobs, serving under british rule? Anger doesn't mean -violent-, and neither does confrontation. Strike action is confrontation, and you may have noticed, that people who strike are often quite displeased, angry, some might say, about conditions.

Though you know, the actual movement for Indian independence was punctuated by extreme bouts of violence from both sides - violence that Gandhi ultimately considered acceptable if the result was the British out of India.

 

[Plurralbles]

No, it usually doesn't. Fury might (as it is more devoted to a greater good than anger), but anger itself is generally a dull on logic and calculation. Only in the most pure physical activities may the blood pumping of anger really aid you. The rest of the time, it creates poor judgement and worse consequences.

anger leads to hate hate leads to suffering...

yes. By starwars logic only. anger makes one stronger.

I hope you know that that's not originally from Star Wars. It's actually adapted from a Buddhist saying.

anger leads to hate hate leads to suffering...


yes. By starwars logic only. anger makes one stronger.

ninja'd well said
if anger lets me shoot lightening from my fingers, throw people across rooms and crush things through mind power then sign me up for some ;-)

SO yeah.. the lightning part is starwars logic, Silva.

 

[lambsheep]

makes me stronger but then i'm a berserker

Same here, rage sends adrenaline through my veins, which fuels my fist into my arch enemy's face, but dont get carried away. You might do something stupid, like hitting a brick wall.

 

[MelziGurl]

Negative emotions, such as anger and hate deplete not make me stronger as I have worked out in previous weeks.

 

[Still Life]

I think anger can reinforce an individual's drive; I know this because anger has pushed me to accomplish a number of tasks in my lifetime. However, I think being driven by anger is extremely unhealthy, and can really hurt you as an individual in ways you may never know -- especially in your relationships with other people. This has happened to members of my own family and some friends, and the results aren't pretty, really.

I do my best to be driven by my passion for life, and become buoyed by all the positive things that have come to me. Being a really passionate person, anger often comes easy and when that happens I take a step back. It is really important -- especially for the fire-eaters like myself -- to have a good emotional balance.