The Daily Stoic - The Cost Is Just Too High

Episode Date: June 10, 2022

Ryan talks about why you must tame your temper.The Stoics have some of the smartest and most applicable insights about getting your anger contained. For a high level introduction to some of those insights, check out this article: Anger Management: 8 Strategies Backed By Two Thousand Years of Practice. Or if you really want to get serious about conquering your anger, sign up for our course: Taming Your Temper: The 11-Day Stoic Guide to Controlling Anger. 11 days of challenges, exercises, video lessons, and bonus tools based on Stoic philosophy and aimed at helping you deal with your anger in a constructive manner. Learn more here!Sign up for the Daily Stoic email:http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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It's costing you or the company or your country. Money, resources, goodwill, things that you can never get back. So you want to get angry. But the question is not whether the anger is deserved. According to the Stelx, it's whether you can afford it. As General George Marshall, the US Army Chief of Staff who oversaw Allied strategy and who Churchill called the organizer a victory of World War II and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for the Marshall Plan.

He told himself, I cannot allow myself to become angry. That would be fatal. It is too exhaustive. And it's true. Anger kills your energy, your health, your performance, your professional reputation, your relationships, and our society. When he was advising NeuroSeneca Tried, futile as it turns out to warn his young

people about the cost of anger. He compared an angry king to a bee. It gets upset and stings. Guess what? It kills itself. And isn't that what happened to Neuro? He attacked everyone and everything, not realizing in the end that he was attacking himself and legitimacy of his reign. And in the end, there was nowhere for that energy to turn but inward on himself. And angry beastings and dyes on the spot. The costs aren't always as immediate for us, but they are always high. So ask yourself, whenever the anger rises up within you and the urge to act on it starts to overwhelm your senses. Ask yourself, can I afford it? As we've said a million times, just because you don't have an anger problem, doesn't mean anger is not a problem, doesn't mean it's not costing you something.

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