Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy
Hidden Brain
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The Stoic Challenge
In a stoic challenge book, i describe what i call the five second rule. It's a nice thing to keep in mind, because my own experience with anger is that you need to nip it in the bud. So i describe five seconds. And i don't know if that's the exact time, but if you let the anger burst into flames, you've got a real problem on your hands,. Because it's going to burn for a long time. Even if you reduce it to smouldering, it will burst into flames again - and so the best thing is to prevent it from even being activated to begin with. That's why you have to be quickad you get
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