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165: Govern Your Emotions But Know Your Nature. Psychology For The Fighting Man (Pt.2)

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How to Deal With a Difficult Problem

When a man is faced with any sort of obstacle or frustration when things become too difficult there are three sorts of things he can do. He can work at it harder attacking the problem from new angles with increasing vigor, he can get mad and attempt to destroy the obstacle or himself or something else and three he can give up and despair and run away in apathy. The extreme of self punishment for disastrous failure or frustration is suicide but mostly suicide is just giving up if at first you don't succeed try try again this adage may be used to maintain courage but the process is actually governed by natural law.

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