Penn't Up Anger

So Sean Penn is in the news again for an emotional outburst. The gossip has it that he had some sort of altercation with Greg Shapiro the current partner of his former wife, and new Oscar winner, at an Oscar after-party. I don’t think Penn’s behaviour is cool in any way and he would do well to do something about it!

Penn declined to attend the all important Governor’s Ball, held later in the evening. As a past Oscar winner, he would have been one of the chosen ‘elite’ to be there but again, chances of him running into Shaper at the ball was on the cards.

In February this year, Penn, 49, was charged with misdemeanour battery and vandalism following an incident involving the photographer in October last year.

What most people don’t realise is that with a bit of work, people can beat the outburst before they even happen. Penn has a history of violent confrontations with photographers and he is a person making some pretty poor decisions because of his emotions.

I think if I were to ask Sean Penn if his worst decisions were made during times of high emotions, he’d probably say yes and he is certainly paying a heavy price for his actions.

Emotions are a great resource when you have them under control. But when they take over, things can get very messy. The problem is that what seems to feel like a great idea at the time, too often turns out to be intellectually stupid when the dust settles. Once we ‘cool down’ we very quickly see the outburst for what it really was; an emotional expression of patterns of behaviour which we can trace all the way back to when we were developing children, so when our emotions take us, the adult, over we end up acting like a child.

Apart from being a bit embarrassing, out of control emotions are a very destructive way to live. The damage includes things like being passed over for higher positions at work, people not wanting to back you up, people impeding your progress, and the like, to name but a few.

People being run by their emotions are never fully trusted so when final decisions are made, these are the people most likely to miss out! Might not be fair, but that’s the way it happens.

The point is that in the real world, get your stuff handled and be in control of it and things will come your way.