The Upside of Your Dark Side Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment

He's the author of The Upside of Your Dark Side, Why Being Your Whole Self, Not Just Your Good Self, Drives Success and Fulfillment.

He's the author of The Art of Insubordination, How to Dissent and Defy Effectively and The Upside of Your Dark Side, Why Being Your Whole Self, Not Just Your Good Self, Drives Success and Fulfillment.

He is the author of The Upside of Your Dark Side, Why Being Your Whole Self, Not Just Your Good Self, Drives Success and Fulfillment.

He's the author of ... The Upside of Your Dark Side, Why Being Your Whole Self, Not Just Your Good Self, Drives Success and Fulfillment.

We interviewed Todd Cashden, that episode coming out in a few weeks and his book, the upside of your dark side talks about when and when you're in the middle of the day.

This book and this discussion is an interesting counterpoint to the idea that we always have to be positive and happy and why these emotions might actually harm our ability to get things done and achieve the results we want.

What I found really interesting here was that these negative emotions that we're looking at that often we try to surprise actually become more useful than let's just be cheerful and happy all the time.

I love the concept of wholeness because it actually goes against what I think a lot of the self help kind of BS industry and a lot of these personal growth shows books and seminars are teaching which is you got to be happy, you got to be positive all the time and we'll get into that in a second.

You have books that say how to live an anxiety-free life you have books that say how to live a stress-free life how to have happiness for no reason we're offering a revisionist view that's not just meant to be hopeful it's a closer match to the signs it requires and it requires to have a more nuanced view.

We're persuading people to get the best possible outcome in the situation for all parties and what the thing is is that being positive and optimistic is often exactly the opposite of what you need to get the best possible outcome.

We interviewed Todd Cashden that episode coming out in a few weeks and his book, the upside of your dark side talks about when and when you're in the middle of the day. Talks about when anger is more effective and appropriate and there are there are science behind this stuff.

Today we're talking with Todd Cashin, author of the Upside of your Dark Side, why being your whole self not just your good self drives success and fulfillment.

This book and this discussion is an interesting counterpoint to the idea that we always have to be positive and happy and why these emotions might actually harm our ability to get things done and achieve the results we want.

I love the concept of wholeness because it actually goes against what I think a lot of the self help kind of BS industry and a lot of these personal growth shows books and seminars are teaching which is you got to be happy, you got to be positive all the time and we'll get into that in a second.

you have books that say how to live an anxiety-free life you have books that say how to live a stress-free life how to have happiness for no reason we're offering a revisionist view that's not just meant to be hopeful it's a closer match to the signs it requires and it requires to have a more nuanced view

So in this way in not avoiding negative emotions we gain emotional agility is kind of what we discussed in the beginning of the show here but we talked about healthier unhealthy emotions a little bit is it beneficial to be labeling emotions as healthier unhealthy right sort of like the anxiety that guilt shame anger a lot of times we label those as unhealthy emotions when really what it sounds like you're saying is there's there are things that are healthy or appropriate for a given situation not healthier unhealthy emotions in a general sense exactly