I didn't set out to become an anger specialist. I set out to be a good doctor. But the patients I saw — the executives, the parents, the partners — weren't just sick. They were exhausted from carrying around anger they never asked for.

Forty years later, I've written 26 books, walked thousands through this work, and watched the same quiet thing happen again and again: someone realizes they were never broken. They were just never told the truth about anger.