Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visit DailyStoic.com. It begs to linger.

It's fuel for you.

It's a powerful force you tap into.

It's a shield you use to protect yourself.

Many of us use anger in our lives.

Productively, we tell ourselves. It's what's driven our career. It's

what's behind our activism. It's what allows us to put ourselves out there, that desire to prove someone

wrong, to punish some wrongdoer, to feel alive. But the problem with anger, as the song we

quoted recently puts it, is that it begs to stick around.

As of fuel, anger is both explosive and addictive.

Has anyone ever actually felt like they finally did stick it to those doubters and can now rest securely in their accomplishments?

Of course not. Anger finds the next target,

the next slight to obsess over, the next mole hill to turn into a mountain. It doesn't burn itself out,

but it does eventually burn everything around it. The Stoics knew that anger was very dangerous.

This is why they warned against revenge.

This is why Marcus quoted that line from the now lost Euripides' play to remind himself of the impotence of rage. Why should we feel anger at the world, he asks, as if the world would notice?

Once you let anger into your life, once you let it

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