Power Play: Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive
I love this Power Play because it forces a person to make a conscious choice. Will I get angry and be blinded by my anger or will I try to look through it to the other side and see something funny in the situation?
Even the most awful and complicated situations contain some humour in them – or at the very least, you can choose to see something funny in them.
Power Players always choose laughter because they know that anger clouds their judgment. There’s another good reason: there’s less recovery time involved when you’re laughing, as opposed to yelling.
Take a lead from the shrewdest Power Players: next time you are faced with a situation that makes you want to explode, don’t.
The anger will get you nowhere except possibly even angrier. Try to see the funny side because I promise you, there will always be one to see.
Rose Herceg
Entrepreneur, strategist and author Rose Herceg co-founded Pophouse, specialising in social forecasting, market research and business strategy in 1998 before selling it to STW in 2006. Until recently Rose was strategy director of the STW Group, working across 70 companies on strategy, social forecasting, trends analysis and innovation. She is currently developing several online start-ups in media and media content.
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