Week 7

Chapter 7

Part 1

Chapter 7 starts out on emotional intelligence, how a person recognizes their feelings, how they act with their feelings, and which ones are necessary for the situation. The author says “In her 1989 book Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, Carl Tavris argues that anger is not entirely basic or instinctual. She shows that our ability to experience anger is influenced by social interaction, through which we learn whether and when we are supposed to feel anger” (Wood, T., Julia. 2010). I really liked what she had said there, because sometimes I get really angry and I think to myself later why am I so angry. Sometimes it just takes over and there is no control. We need to learn to identify our emotions, how we express them, and when we express them. It’s like you have to think before you express what you are about to express for people to judge you! 

Part 2:

I think that anger should be expressed in another form but yelling or shouting. I think that yelling just makes the other person more upset and it keeps the others raging. Maybe instead of yelling they could to be silent. That would make an awkward feeling in the room and would maybe help the other person realize that something is the matter. Instead of yelling they group or people talk quietly about their feelings. They could also when they get angry walk away cool off and then carry on their conversation. Know when those anger feelings are coming and control them.