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The podcast mentioned Seneca's essay on anger, which focuses on anger prevention as the only cure, emphasizing the irreplaceable nature of actions done in anger.
The truth is nothing can undo what we do out of anger. We can't take back what we said. We can't turn back the clock on the harm we've inflicted or the mistakes that we have made. This is why Seneca w...
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Episode: You Can Never Undo This
The podcast mentioned Seneca's essay on anger, which focuses on anger prevention as the only cure, emphasizing the irreplaceable nature of actions done in anger.
The truth is nothing can undo what we do out of anger. We can't take back what we said. We can't turn back the clock on the harm we've inflicted or the mistakes that we have made. This is why Seneca wrote his famous essay on anger, which we actually carry in the painted porch.
He said the only cure for anger is prevention, stopping yourself before you do the thing that you regret, before you take away something that even the most powerful person cannot replace.
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This book, from Princeton University Press, was mentioned as a good selection of Stoic writings.
there's sort of little collections of the stoics and one is called how to keep your cool and the other is called how to die
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A collection of Seneca's writings on anger, praised for their eloquence and profundity.
This is just a collection of some of Seneca's best stuff on anger
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The speaker recommended Seneca's essay "On Anger", particularly the James Rom translation titled "How to Keep Your Cool", for its insights on managing anger and seeking justice without resorting to destructive emotions.
Seneca writes a whole essay called uh on anger that I think you would really like um there's a translation uh by penguin no by Princeton University Press um that James Rom did that you can check out I think it's called how to keep your cool um and it's just it's selections from that essay and some other places that Seneca talks about anger but Seneca talks about anger a lot it's he says like look even if someone murdered your father he said you should get vengeance just don't get revenge he says you should get vengeance and justice just don't do it out of anger so I this idea that the stokes are passive that are more fotsy means you just accept everything is not quite right it's that um you you accept it as sort of fuel or um an experience that has occurred in your life but if you have the opportunity to affect change or to be made better for what has happened that's where you go towards it not anger bitterness resentment frustration I mean look and you look at what's happening in the world it's very easy to get angry but I would I would argue that anger is more of the problem than the solution and so that's that's maybe where I think about it