• 5 months ago
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00:00 Someone comes and says something unpleasant to you.
00:03 Do you need to just immediately, unthinkingly explode, as most of us do?
00:10 Or can you tell yourself, I am not an animal.
00:13 I can wait, I can be patient.
00:15 Let me at least think over it.
00:17 Animals are supposed to react.
00:19 Human beings are supposed to understand and then respond.
00:22 That's the difference between reaction and response.
00:25 Response involves understanding.
00:28 Reaction is just chemical.
00:31 Whenever you find emotions taking control of yourself, resist, fight.
00:36 That's the one battle worthy to be fought.
00:40 The external battles can wait a little.
00:43 If you can fight the internal battle well,
00:45 you will find the external battles are far easier to win.
00:48 Be a master of your own mind.
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