149 - The Vocabulary of Anger

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

b'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'