My friend has a Master's degree in History of Religion from UCLA specializing in Buddhism and Sanskrit. With this he could teach at almost any college or university History in the U.S. However, he would rather live in Mt. Shasta, play music and run a music recording studio for himself and many other musicians he knows from all around the world.
This choice has served him well both as a musician, traveling all over the world playing music and being incredibly free to pursue his spiritual path as an adult.
He was telling me anger is not useful. He mentioned even the Dalai Lama thought that anger wasn't useful. Then he said that when you are angry you poison yourself with bad chemicals.
I remembered how angry I was in the early 1990s when I couldn't get custody of my daughter from my ex-wife. I always attributed my heart virus that I almost died from to this anger. So, here was another bit of evidence going in this direction.
Then I said to my friend, "But when I'm a little angry I'm always the most intelligent. In fact, I could say that all the best things in my life came from me getting a little angry and making changes that made my life an ongoing miracle."
He looked at me and said, "But this isn't the anger of rage that some people experience."
I said, "Yes. That's true."
So, just remember when you are really enraged beyond it being useful to you and your future.
Because poisoning yourself with the enraged chemicals your body makes only shortens your life and the quality of it and likely does nothing to change whatever is wrong to something better.
The fight or flight response is very short term and sometimes (like when a bus is bearing down on you) it's good to run for your life.
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