Losing Your Temper Is a Luxury | Suspend Your Opinions
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🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about why you must keep your anger in check, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
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| 0:53.1 | Listen to the leads starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast |
| 1:01.7 | Losing your temper is a luxury |
| 1:04.8 | There are things that you get upset about and there are the things that hit you so hard or so frustrating that you find yourself almost in a state of zen light calm |
| 1:14.0 | Not even angry. We say I'm beyond mad |
| 1:17.2 | It's interesting how the things you do lose your temper about pale and comparison or in seriousness to these other things |
| 1:24.8 | Your mad that construction has slowed down traffic |
| 1:27.7 | But when united fails to provide a pilot for the flight you've paid a lot of money for and your trip is now seven hours delayed |
| 1:34.9 | You simply accept it and deal with it |
| 1:37.2 | You yelled when somebody screwed up at work, but when a truly serious mistake happens |
| 1:42.1 | You somehow have the composure to reassure them |
| 1:45.1 | In his essay on anger |
| 1:47.1 | Senna could tell us a story of a man who endured a dinner with the emperor who just murdered his son |
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