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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

It's okay to get mad. Just don't be angry. We've talked about how the Stoics respond to the terrifying and alarming events of life. Yes, they might get scared. That's what happens when you're surprised or thrown back by a blow from fate.

But what a Stoic doesn't do is become afraid. Note they gather themselves up and keep going. They push away the fear and do their duty.

The distinction between being scared and afraid is important and can be applied elsewhere, especially right now.

How does a Stoic feel about this global pandemic in which innocent people have been utterly failed by their governments?

Leaders who denied that the threat was real and failed to prepare whose negligence and incompetence were downright criminal?

This should make a Stoic man, but what a Stoic must do is prevent themselves from getting angry.

Because as Stoic wrote repeatedly, the effects of anger are almost always worse than the harm of the violation. As Athena Doris advised, we have to count the letters of the alphabet and gather ourselves before we do or say something we regret.

We have to focus our energy productively on keeping ourselves and our families safe, on keeping our business going, on looking for opportunities that come from market downturns, and of course, for coming up with a plan to throw these bombs out of office when the time comes.

Being mad as a reaction, anger is a state of mind. One is outside our control, the other is something we choose, a weakness we give into and accept.

This moment, just like a scary moment, requires all our resources. We cannot afford to give in to anger, just as we cannot afford to give in to fear.

We need to be alert, aware, rational, control of ourselves so we can survive, so we can learn, so we can enjoy happiness in the present moment, so we can make sure this never happens.

Anger is a problem that faces us all. We don't all have anger problems, but anger is a problem for everyone. You can learn how to control your temper with daily Stoic's course, taming your temper that 10 days still guide to controlling your anger.

Stoic's recognized anger as a weakness to be mastered, they knew that anger left unchecked would consume you and take over your life.

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