The Upside Of Your Dark Side Summary

Emotions like anger anxiety or doubt might be uncomfortable but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful.

The upside of your dark side summary. Sometimes they can even hold us back. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the hidden elements of a happy fulfilling engaged life. The upside of your dark side takes a look at our darkest emotions like anxiety or anger and shows you there are real benefits that follow them and their underlying character traits such as narcissism or psychopathy. In the upside of your dark side two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness kindness and positivity can take us far they cannot take us all the way.

The upside of your dark side illuminates the essential role played by negative emotions. And then goes further revealing the benefits of personality traits we tend to downgrade such as grandiosity and selfishness. They go so far as to suggest that our modern quest for happiness through positivity mindfulness and optimism is doomed. Drawing on the upside of the dark side in 1972 as the world s attention turned to the olympic games in munich germany american athlete frank shorter was mentally preparing for the greatest challenge of his career.

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. In the upside of your dark side two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness kindness and positivity can take us far they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes they can even hold us back. And then goes further revealing the benefits of personality traits we tend to downgrade such as grandiosity and selfishness.

Emotions such as anger anxiety guilt and sadness might feel uncomfortable but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. In the upside of your dark side two pioneering researchers in the field of psychology show that while mindfulness kindness and positivity can take us far they cannot take us all the way. The upside of your dark side neatly fills the empirical space between positive psychology is the best thing going and positive psychology is bunk it also fills the space around psychology as usual is for the broken and distraught this book brings humanity back to psychology in all its forms. Appearances in both the marathon and the 10 000 meter event.

In the upside to your dark side kashdan and biswas diener push our thinking beyond positive emotions. The upside of your dark side illuminates the essential role played by negative emotions.