Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Anger is not a stronger form of thinking, it is a substitute for it, and it arrives with complete confidence in its own analysis. In that state the range of options narrows to two or three, all satisfying and most expensive later. Which is why the message you most want to send is the one worth not sending.

Give yourself a fixed delay when it hits: an hour for messages, a day for decisions. Notice that the anger rarely disappears, it just stops being the only thing in the room. What you decide then is usually what you would have wanted.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What did anger stop you from seeing clearly last time?

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