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Failure is failure, and it's expected along the path

Practical Stoicism

Is Throwing a Fit in the Moment or in Reaction to Bad News?

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Theo Frastis: Throwing a fit in the moment and in reaction to bad news or internal pain like having your car stolen doesn't seem for whatever reason as childish, at least not to Marcus and Theo Frastis. He says once you've elected to don the mantle of prakapton, anger in response to pain is more understandable than anger in reaction to a roadblock to pleasure. But he adds that sustained anger ever present anger worsens the longer you're blocked from that pleasure.

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