[davidgrenier]

And oddly enough I stopped at this one:

13) Anger is not a real emotion. It is fear clothed. Figure out what you are afraid of before you get angry.

Anger is a very real and one of the most useful emotion, because it's so easy to recognize. It tells you something important is going on and might as well stop what you are doing for a moment and figure it out.

[amelius]

Anger only happens because you fear something bad might otherwise happen again :)

See also: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/700111-there-are-only-two-em...

[rubber_duck]

For that statement to be true you would have to generalize the definition of fear to "anticipation of undesired outcome" and that entire quote reduces "there are things we like and dislike". Sounds like pretentious bullshit to me rather than an insightful quote.

[Spearchucker]

Anger clouds judgement and suspends rational thought. I struggle to see how being angry myself might be useful to me. Of course like with NLP that knowledge can be useful when dealing with another who is or gets angry.

[jon-wood]

I tend to agree with the statement that anger is just fear without knowing the reason. It might be that the thing you fear is justified, but even then the anger becomes a concrete fear that you can act upon.