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Much anger is a result of not having cultivated impatience as a more focused response. Anger, unlike impatience, is a natural rather than cultivated response. But it includes impatience, so is adaptive where only impatience is needed. The extra stuff in anger is overhead/tax
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I learned this as a child and made it a life’s mission to cultivate patience as a core goal. It’s very liberating to continually recognize how most stuff that gets people worked up has little effect on me.
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It’s a real Goldilocks situation. Too little patience forecloses some very desirable opportunities and interactions. Too much is a vector for being exploited. Love your point about impatience vs. anger.
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