320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society
The Michael Shermer Show
The Stoic Approach to Anger Management
The Stoics define unhealthy emotions as the emotions that override reason. Anger is a good example because it's also one of the major targets of modern cognitive behavioral therapy. To deal with anger, Seneca says you disengage and then ask yourself: Why was I angry? You can actually measure physiological responses like stress hormones in your blood to see how often people do these kinds of things.
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