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Come. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoak.com. There's a difference between urge and action.

It's pretty simple, but we are sometimes so hard on ourselves that we forget.

There's a difference between urge and action being tempted and indulgent temptation.

As we've talked about the stoic response to anger, we've made this distinction.

Getting angry and making a decision out of anger are not the same thing.

That's why Seneca said that the greatest remedy for your temper was delay.

Feeling the feeling and acting on the feeling are separated by a space and the bigger the space,

the better the choice we can make.

In her wonderful book Good Inside Dr Becky

talks about teaching lists to children. Parents often have the goal of

getting rid of the urge, she writes. What's wrong with you? Why would you want to

hurt someone? But it's better, she says, if we can try humanizing the urge

and then shifting where we allow a child to discharge it.

Because it allows the child to gain regulation

and over time make better decisions.

But this is just as important for us as adults.

Marx Trillis talks about how we have the power of no opinion over events and he's right.

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