How to keep your cool - Seneca
Summary
- Ancient ideas to contain anger
How I discovered it
- Recommendation from Ryan Holliday
How the book changed me
- Helping me not get angry in Nairobi traffic.
Details
- Punishment can be delayed but once given cannot be taken back
- Dont be in a rush to learn what people say about you
Quotes
- It is best to repel instantly the first prickings of anger, to stamp out its very seedlings, to take pains not to be drawn in - Seneca
- Suspicion and inference, those most misleading incitements, must be banished from the mind... - Seneca
- We must, then, hold back our anger, whether the one who needs to be taken on is our equal, our better, or our inferior. To fight with an equal is a chancy affair; with a better, insane; with an inferior, tawdry - Seneca