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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Your happiness may hinder your accuracy and overall performance.
Chapter 3: Chasing happiness can prevent you from actually truly feeling happy.
Chapter 4: Anxiety enables us to respond rapidly in the presence of danger.
Chapter 5: Anger can boost your creativity and amplify your authority.
Chapter 6: Feelings of guilt can turn us into better people. Shame, however, is generally far less helpful.
Chapter 7: Narcissistic traits can help you be productive, creative, successful.
Chapter 8: Psychopathic traits can make you a superior leader.
Chapter 9: Mindfulness can’t apply to absolutely everything.
Chapter 10: Mindless processing can result in superior performance and better decisions.
Description
The Upside of Your Dark Side looks into the darkest depths of the human psyche, only to discover that the painful emotions that we often wish we could just make go away – anger, anxiety, guilt – are sometimes the key to our success. Backed by many fascinating scientific studies, The Upside of Your Dark Side makes it clear that psychological health means wholeness rather than happiness.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who’s fed up with the happiness-hype in popular psychology
- Anyone who tries to bottle up his or her negative emotions
- Anyone interested in psychology