149 - The Vocabulary of Anger

Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 3 p.m.

I talk a lot on this podcast about anger because it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been working to manage in my own life. And today, I want to talk about the language of anger, and about learning to redefine and talk about anger in a different way.\n\n\u201cFor if anger listens to reason and follows where reason leads, then it is already not anger, of which obstinacy is a proper quality; if, however, it fights back and does not become quiet when it has been ordered, but is carried forward by its desire and ferocity, then it is as useless a servant of the soul as a soldier who disregards the signal for falling back. And thus, if it suffers a measure to be applied to itself, then it must be called by a different name, and it ceases to be anger, which I understand to be unrestrained and untamable.\u201d\n\n\u2014 Seneca\n\nhttps://stoic.coffee