RAGE

Rage 😡 is easy, sometimes it's even fun.

There's a guy sitting next to me talking on his phone - ON SPEAKERPHONE: rage. 

They're going to take away my "cow hoof abscess" 🐄Tik Tok: rage.

It seems like the world is generally on fire🔥: rage.

LOTS of ways to get triggered; lots of ways to feel rage.

Except....if/when one wants to make impact, coming from rage is often the weakest possible move.

HULK SMASH

Need to lift a car off a baby?👶🏾 Engage in hand-to-paw combat with a bear?🐻 Ok - maybe rage will offer that extra bit of super human strength to help you carry the day.

However, in almost every other real-life situation, time spent in rage just makes us dumber. It makes us dumber because energy that could go towards strategy and creativity gets diverted to "HULK SMASH!"

OUTRAGE

So what do we do? Just give up? Just LET THE BEARS, AND THEIR KIND, WIN!??

No.

What we do is we get back to neutral. Before we do anything, we take whatever time we need to return from losing our freaking mind. Then we act from a place of outrage rather than from a place of rage.

What's the difference between rage and outrage? Rage means we're triggered, we're kind of not thinking, we're dumber, we're wasting energy. Outrage means we're strategic, we're thinking, we're smarter, we're in action.

The distinction between rage and outrage is reflected in sayings like:

"don't get mad, get even" or

"don't boo, vote" or  

"all bark and no bite."

The world doesn't need your rage, it needs your outrage.

Ready to be outrageous with you, Eric