From the author: A shortened article about the essence of aggression and its place in our lives. Hello, Alexey Karev with you. Today I propose to explore the topic of “aggression”. As a rule, it is customary to understand aggression as expansion, attack, destruction, that is, something that brings pain and suffering. However, I propose to look on aggression as energy. Look at it as a “resource of resources.” Let's figure it out. You can't argue with the fact that an aggressive message contains a lot of energy. But is this “good” energy? Now in the era of “humanity”, “tolerance”, “tolerance” and other things, even the word aggression itself evokes some kind of unpleasant feeling. Thoughts flash through my head about the mass migration of people from the Middle East, about terrorism, about hostages, robberies, violence and other unpleasant things and events. And it becomes obvious that aggression is bad. But once we look into the past (preferably very long ago, for example, during the time of the cavemen), then aggression takes on at least a double meaning. For clarity, let’s imagine that you and I are not sitting in a warm house, a soft chair in front of a monitor, but, tightly wrapped in a casually sewn robe, sitting by the fire on a stone heated by our own body, inside a cave, the entrance to which is covered with deer skin. It’s winter outside, just like now... So, the meaning of aggression is twofold. Meaning number one: all the same “external unpleasant people” who want to do us “bad” (take a mammoth, take a woman, kill, drive us out of a cave) come to us without knocking and begin to urgently demand to leave this room. They are dangerous, aggressive, embittered... Aggression is bad. But there is another meaning of aggression, this is aggression in ourselves, which forces us, relying on the instinct of self-preservation, to defend our “square meters” and everything that comes with them. She forces us to show our teeth, smartly wave our club, hinting to uninvited guests that we will not register them here. And it turns out that this aggression is good. A primitive example? I agree, but one cannot argue with the obvious “goodness” of aggression in this situation. That is, the main task of “aggression for oneself” is to want to do well for oneself and not allow others to destroy this “goodness.” Due to the fact that now there is a struggle for “ humanity” of relationships, direct aggression is prohibited and, if a person allows it, he is either punished or experiences a feeling of guilt. However, only an aggressive person can be considered successful or effective. I propose to consider “aggression” as energy. Energy that provokes activity. Energy that forces us to reckon with the presence of “me” as an object. That is, for example, this very article that you are reading now is “aggressive”. It is embedded in the Internet, it is embedded in the heads of readers, and in the end, it is embedded in a text editor. That is, it displaces emptiness or displaces what was previously printed or written down. Thus, the origin of life can also be considered “aggression” (the sperm is aggressive towards the egg, it penetrates it). “Aggressive” towards the mother is the child growing inside her, being born and thereby causing pain. “Aggressive” is each of us displacing a certain volume of air or water from the environment in which we are located. By occupying a certain workplace, we are “passively aggressive” towards another (possibly unspecified and very hypothetical “other”) who could take this place. And so in everything: in work, business, on the playground, in the parking lot, in relationships and everywhere, everywhere... Often people are afraid to fight for their own: for their “place in the sun”, for a man/woman, attention, money, etc. . Thinking that they have to be “good” to others in order to be loved. Afraid that the fight is always "a bloody battle and tousled hair." No, that's not true. The struggle can be different, but the energetic “urge” is primarily “aggressive”. The struggle can be caring, the struggle can be attentive, the struggle can be through increasing professionalism and.