How The Stoics Manage Anger 

I used to be an extremely aggressive person (still not great) and always far too reactive. If you can learn to take even a few seconds to stop and calibrate your thoughts before acting on rage life becomes easier. Controlling emotions is key to nearly everything

This is probably my biggest problem with my character. I have to remember that anger is the devils cocain. Thank you.

I found in my experience that anger was often covering over other emotions that I was repressing or felt I couldn't express (sadness, vulnerability). And unlinke Marcus Aurelius points out, it seemed to me to be more in line with 'manliness' to be angry than to be weeping or timid, at least when I was a young man. I was very much akin to a wild beast as Epictetus so aptly describes, in thought and action. Without philosophical ideas from Stoicism and Buddhism/Hinduism as well as dedication to doing the shadow work necessary to reshape my behaviors I would likely still be operating on the level of a wild beast, harming myself and others.

" Anger is momentary Madness . " - Horace . -

This is now apart of my morning routine

The other night, I lashed out towards my aunt and said some hurtful things out of anger. It is good to come back to this video, and I pray I will never come back to this video out of regret of a situation that I have caused out of anger. I’m sorry, Titi.

" Anger makes dull men witty , but keeps them poor . " - Francis Bacon . -

Correct, righteous anger should be embraced. We have emotions - all emotions - for reasons we do not always fathom. To deny righteous anger when it is not only required - but expected - is to deny ones humanity. From the context of petty anger, I would agree that it is not productive and can be detrimental. The two should be distinguished from one another.

This is an important video that must be shared with everyone.

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Thank you for this amazing video, i have anger issues (improving more and more) and seeing thoses words helped me understand more how to fix them ❤

Even in a fight the coolhead wins over blinded by anger opponent.

About a week ago I got so fleetingly angry at something in the kitchen that I slammed the microwave door hard enough to shatter the corner of a plastic trim piece above the door handle. It doesn't degrade the microwave functionality at all, but it is likely not fixable either. I put the pieces in a plastic bag just in case I figure out a way to fix it, but five minutes later I couldn't even remember why I was so angry. Point taken. (And this is a range microwave that costs a lot to replace.)

Indifference to the aggravations of life seems to better way to avoid rage.

do you know jordan b peterson. do like what he tells, explains things about life in general? I've been watching both of you for quite some time now and i am seeing quite some similarities.

Hearts of people are like wild beasts. They attach themselves to those who love and train them....

Idk what’s wrong with me all That I know and understand and I’m still broken

If possible, bunk Wrath and Sloth together; they’ll keep each other out of trouble.

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Why do ppl even want to act on rage and anger when the consequences are so destructive for their life? If one can control happiness, sadness and fear, one can for sure control anger too. There is no difference there.

I don’t agree with the facts you say about the wild animals .. they practice life on the right way!!

Zacchaeus the Tax Collector 19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. 5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. 7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” 8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

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