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please welcome ken lindner. >> we've seen so many people, david petraeus, anthony weiner, bill clinton, very foolish decisions and these are smart, smart people, why do they do it? >> first of all, i've been counseling people over 30 years, governor to make great life choices and one thing i've learned is when you let your emotions, whether it's sadness, anger, resentment, or your urges overpower your best judgment, your reasoning processes, you can make self-sabotaging decisions. and david petraeus or eliot spitzer or any of the people you just mentioned, they did not consider the consequences of their acts. maybe if they had, they would not have done what they did. but they let those urges, their emotions, just sabotage them. >> mike: this isn't just about people who are celebrities or people in high places. >> not at all. >> mike: a lot of just people make foolish decisions based on their impulses and urges. >> we're a quick fix society and as i talk about in "your killer emotions" when we're angry, enraged, sad, when we feel hopeless we want a quick fix, something to make us feel b

our next guest, kin lindner is out with a new book. ken, welcome. great to see you.r management. why the framework of emotion? why does that do us in time after time? >> well, first of all, carl, i've been counseling people to make success-evoking life choices for over 30 years. and one thing i've learned is that successful people control their emotions. they don't let their emotions control and sabotage them. so i wrote "your killer emotions" to help people master their emotions so that they can achieve their greatest successes. >> you've got a number of steps. you talk about being anticipatory but you talk about something your personal emotional triggers. what is that and give me an example of one that afflicts, i don't know, the most common one. >> for example, let's deal with anger and we'll deal with it in the workplace. i counselled somebody who would always get angry when he would deal with a co-worker, and it was sabotaging his career path. so we talked about the fact that what did he want or loath more than life? one, he wanted this promotion. two, he had a