This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you.

Coming up later in the programme, why freedom of movement of sausages was an obstacle

to a safe and peaceful Brexit that everybody apparently except the British government could see

coming. But before that, in my new book, which is, of course, available at all good bookshops

and etc., etc.

I offer up three little rules, three little suggestions that have enormously improved the quality of my life.

They're not particularly earth-shattering.

They're a little bit self-helpy, which I never thought would happen to me.

But I find myself today realizing I must have come up with these little ideas as a result of doing this for a living.

So if you feel a sort of bolus of rage bubbling in your stomach or you feel that kind of fluttering anxiety or anger, the adrenalized fight or flight reaction to feeling that you're under threat. And we all do.

Then pause and ask yourself, what am I really angry about?

It's a really helpful question.

I know it seems obvious and you're powerfully entitled to snigger and be cynical.

I definitely would have been had I tuned into this radio program five years ago even. But what are you really angry about? Okay? What are you frightened of?

What are you frightened of? You know the fight or flight reaction. It involves fear,

even if you're going to knock out the thing that has prompted the fight or flight reaction, there is still fear there. So what are you really frightened of? Because you're not, I would suggest, on a daylight today, you're not really frightened by some students you've never met, taking down a picture you've never seen in a room you'll never visit any more than you're

really frightened by a dance troupe on on on on tv dancing and referencing a murder on the other

side of the atlantic you're not really frightened of that so what are you angry about what are you

really angry about what are you frightened of and crucially i think and i haven't quite articulated

this as well as I would

hope and as well perhaps as you would expect. How would you feel if it was the other way round?

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