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How to Get Your Anger Under Control

The Art of Manliness

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Is There a Boiler That Needs Venting?

Anger is like a 'boiler' that needs venting. If you act angry, you're just going to feel more angry. You's going to habituate yourself to correct feeling angry. So what we want people to do is to push back against those tendencies. I think the reason that catharsis persists is that it feels right. And so when you tell people to practise this, they come back and they feel good in the moment. But if you really sort of follow them along to see, are they really improving and getting better, the answer is pretty strong no for most people.

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