Channel Your Anger

Arun Gandhi spent two years living with his grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi, and learned many things, including how to use anger and turn it into good

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1 See anger as fuel for change

At the age of 12, Arun was told by his grandfather, ‘Anger is good. I get angry all the time.’ He explained that anger is to people like petrol is to a car: ‘It fuels you to move forward and get to a better place,’ he said. ‘Without it, we’d not be motivated to rise to a challenge. It is an energy that compels us to define what is just and unjust.’ Rather than trying to ignore your anger, see it as a warning that something is wrong – and needs to be fixed. The key is learning to ‘channel it to positive ends’.