This Never Makes Things Better | The View from Above
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about the perils of anger, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.
The Stoics have some of the smartest and most applicable insights about getting your anger contained. For a high level introduction to some of those insights, check out this article: Anger Management: 8 Strategies Backed By Two Thousand Years of Practice. Or if you really want to get serious about conquering your anger, sign up for our course: Taming Your Temper: The 11-Day Stoic Guide to Controlling Anger. 11 days of challenges, exercises, video lessons, and bonus tools based on Stoic philosophy and aimed at helping you deal with your anger in a constructive manner. Learn more here!
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| 2:54.0 | This never makes things better. |
| 2:58.0 | You have a big presentation in front of a group of people in your nervous. You've got young kids in your anxious. You're running your own business and you're worried. You're in a combat zone. And you're scared. |
| 3:09.0 | These are all difficult things, no question. But it's important to realize that those nerves, the anxiety, the worry, the fear, they almost never make things better. |
| 3:17.0 | They don't help you operate heavy machinery better. They don't help you remember your lines better. They don't get you anywhere faster. |
| 3:24.0 | When the Stoics talked about not adding to your troubles, this is what they were referring to. What we're trying to do is hard enough. |
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