Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

What Triggers Your Anger? #Shorts

19 May 2023 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube #Short in which Vishen Lakhiani and another speaker argue that anger (and related emotions like jealousy/envy) originates from within a person and surfaces when triggered. The speakers use the metaphor of an Indian sweet, a rasgulla, to illustrate that whatever is inside will come out when pressure or triggers are applied.

It is not the thing that made you angry. Anger was inside.
You and it came out. So your job is to recognize this. You can't get rid of it by wishing it to go away. But the more you think about it, the more that anger will gradually transmute. There is an Indian sweet called a rasgulla. I'm sure you've had it in Calcutta, right? But if you take a rasgulla and you hit it against the wall, what comes out of it? Sugary syrup. Drop it on the floor and stamp on it. And what comes out sugary syrup? Put it under a suitcase. What comes out sugary syrup. No matter what you do to rasgurla, what comes out is sugary syrup. Why is that? Because that's what's inside it. Why does anger and jealousy and envy come out of you when the right triggers are applied?
Because it's inside you.
That's what's inside you.
That's an interesting way of looking at that.