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We Always Lose When We Lose Our Tempers
We Always Lose When We Lose Our Tempers

We Always Lose When We Lose Our Tempers

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Ryan Holiday
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Apr 15, 2020
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Welcome to the Daily stoic or 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 is guided some of History's Greatest men and women form or you can visit us daily stoic.com
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We always lose when we lose our tempers something happened. You got pissed now too bad things have happened. That's just a fact because getting angry rarely makes things better. Even if it helps you get what you thought you wanted it taxes your heart. It causes you to be mean to other people to win you had to lose your self-control that is not to say you should merely accept everything in life. The stoics were not passive weaklings. It's
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A preferred persuasion patience and persistence to yelling they focused on addressing the root causes not catharsis. How much worse getting mad is then the things that caused it Seneca said anger always Outlast hurt. He advised best to take the opposite course. Would anyone think it normal to return a kick to a mule or a bite to a dog? So if you want to win at life at philosophy at accomplishing what you set out to accomplish?
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You need to rein in your temper. You'll need to figure out the opposite course to develop more than one kind of response to things. You don't like it's easy to get angry, but it's more effective to remain calm come up with Solutions came your temper. Don't make problems worse by getting angry 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.
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Carrie Stokes new course taming your temper that 10 days don't guide to controlling your anger stoics recognized anger as a weakness to be mastered. They knew that anger left unchecked would consume you and take over your life can help you help you check it out. Go to daily stoic.com anger.
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