How to Master Your Emotions

The most important of these skills and power's crucial foundation is the ability to master your emotions. Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most. If you were trying to destroy an enemy who has hurt you, far better to keep him off guard by fainting friendliness than showing your anger. Love and affection are also potentially destructive in that they blind you to the often self-serving interests of those whom you least suspect of playing a power game. You cannot repress anger or love or avoid feeling them, but you should be careful about how you express them.