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I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

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It's a bad calculation. We were upset. We were worried. We were tired. We were just trying to get through to them. And that's why we yelled.

That's why we spoke to them in a way that, as we said, if we caught someone else talking to our

kids like that, we'd have gone mama or Papa Bear. As the lyrics go, it's a calculation I made

a mistake on. I never should have said it, like I said. Yelling at your kids is almost always a bad calculation.

First off, there's little evidence that it actually works.

It's just some tradition, some cycle of trauma that's been passed down from one yelled

at generation to the next.

We had a good story a while back from the sports psychologist Jonathan Fader.

He yelled at his daughter, after she'd done

something that wasn't safe or appropriate many times. And later, he asked her if she understood why he

yelled. Because you were mad? came her reply. The other reason is that there's a hundred percent

chance you'll regret it. Sure, unloading all that pent-up frustration feels great in the moment, but that feeling never

sticks. Instead, it's replaced with an instant pang of regret for a moment that you can never

take back. The Stoics remind us that anger doesn't look good. It doesn't age well. You have to

try to remember this today when you are faced with the countless

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