Comment by anonymouskimmer

> anger and other extreme emotions are usually negatively correlated with long term success.

But historically when they did not result in negative long term success, they paid off big time.

Anger is not an extreme emotion. It's used all of the time to good purpose. You're thinking about rage. If the "other poster" failed to make this distinction then it's really important to make it now so that we don't start strawmanning or ad homineming based on a misunderstanding.

Personally Joy has been an extreme emotion that has done me bad. As when I experience Joy I start to stop paying attention. On one occasion I suffered a broken bone because of it.