Scott McInnesFounder and Director, Inspiring Change · 20+ Years Helping Leaders Build Stronger Cultures, More Human Communication and Embed Lasting Change | Founder | Keynote Speaker | Podcast Host

The truth about projecting your rage #psychology #mindset

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Suppressing anger builds internal tension that eventually explodes outward, like a ball bouncing back at you. The speaker avoids feeding rage online, choosing calm over confrontation even when he disagrees, and argues that managing stress means not bottling your anger in the first place.

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It's not a helpful thing to be super fragile. It just makes you very porous and you're the one that gets burned. And every time you get hurt by these things and you push the fury back, the rage back, you're creating tension. You're creating stress that will come back on you. When I present stuff, I present stuff about stress and I used to have this image. It's a bit violent, so I sort of took it out. People are kind of wince, but you know, you kick a ball really hard at a fence and then it comes back and smacks you in the face. It's the more of that that we put out, the more that comes back. And I have a really conscious thought on social— I quite enjoy social media, but And I did actually break it this week because I objected slightly to an ad, which led to quite a funny debate. But I try not to put negative things into it. And if people say, "I hate this. This is bollocks. This is rubbish." I'm like, "OK, fine. Whatever. Fine." I try not to sort of hold a very hard line against it. I mean, I know what I believe, but I don't want to fight with people on social media. So I try and hold things gently and I try not to be too fragile.