The Daily Stoic - When You’re Angry, Do This

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wonderree's podcast business wars. And in our new season, Walmart must fight off target, the new discounter that's both savvy and fashion forward. Listen to business wars on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Starting point is 00:00:36 Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us dailystowup.com. When you're angry, do this. We all have things that upset us. People we know, people we don't know, we get triggered, get attacked, we see things happening, stuff happens to us. Before we get angry, the Stoics remind us, we have to try to stop ourselves. Athena Doris

Starting point is 00:01:07 counseled the Emperor Augustus to count all the letters of the alphabet before doing anything out of anger. In her book Walk Through Walls, which I carried the painted porch, the artist Marina Abramovich lays down this principle to aspiring artists. If you get angry, she writes, stop breathing and hold your breath until you can't hold it anymore, and then inhale fresh air. As we talk about in the Daily Stoke, came your temper challenge. It would be wonderful if we could get to a place where we don't get provoked or bothered in the first place. Maybe a lifetime of stoicism will produce that. But for now, these tools are critical. Whether it's holding your breath, their counting letters or going for a walk, what matters is that you're inserting a pause between the stimulus and the response. That you're catching yourself before you return a bite to a dog

Starting point is 00:01:53 or a kick to a mule, as Seneca wrote, because that's not just stupid, it's destructive and pointless. Catch yourself, catch your breath, hold it in, breathe it out, let it go, relax. Move on, don't let it get to you, don't let it make you do something contrary to virtue. Being able to control your anger is a difficult but worthwhile goal. It will take time and effort, won't be free, but by changing your perspective and developing techniques to control your temper, it will ultimately be achievable and life-changing. So take the first step on the path to a calmer and more fulfilling future, check out Taiming your temper, the 10-day Stoic Guide to controlling your anger, you can just go to dailystoic.com slash anger. Anger.

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The Daily Stoic - When You’re Angry, Do This

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