Why the Nicest People Are the Angriest

Ep 548: Why the Nicest People Are the Angriest

Why are the nicest people so often the angriest? A man finds out his wife has been unfaithful, and the strongest word he can find for it is disappointed. A woman who picks up every call starts to feel contempt for the people she spends her life helping, and it frightens her.

Where does that anger go when you stop letting it into the room? It lands on your child, your partner or the salt, and almost never on the person who caused it. You'll hear how a child learns to be nice by watching what anger does at home, the arrangement most niceness carries that nobody else agreed to, the two things people try that never work, and the one sentence that changes it.

Tell me in the comments: what's the sentence you've been holding back for years, and who is it for?

Michael Lauria

The Architect