Think about the last time you felt envy. Perhaps it was when seeing a social media post from a former classmate who just bought a house, while you are struggling to pay rent and barely making ends meet. Or maybe it was that moment when your coworker received the promotion or recognition you believed you deserved. What did you feel exactly? Was it a spark of admiration mixed with determination to improve your own situation? Or, on the contrary, was it a bitter taste of resentment that made you secretly wish for that person's failure?

Imagine for a moment that emotions were colors. Love would be a warm red, sadness a deep blue, and joy a bright yellow. But what color would we assign to envy? Popular tradition has no doubts: an intense green. However, as any artist knows, green is not a simple color. It exists in a multitude of shades, from soft mint green to intense emerald green. Similarly, envy is not a monolithic emotion, but a complex spectrum of feelings ranging from inspiring admiration to corrosive resentment like acid.

In this exciting book, we are going to explore in detail how envy manifests in different social contexts, how we can learn from it, and what role it plays in the formation of our identities and relationships. We will also learn to recognize and manage our own envy, to transform it into admiration, and to manage negative feelings. Additionally, we will address how to deal with the envy of others.

Prepare yourself for a fascinating journey through the nooks and crannies of the human psyche, where we will discover that, like green in a painter's palette, envy can be both a poison and a source of vitality. Everything depends on how we mix it with the other shades of our emotional experience.