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“I'm angry at someone and I know if I say anything right now it will go badly.”
Recognizing that you're not in a state to speak well is itself the redirect. Waiting is not weakness — it's precision. You're choosing to respond from your best self, not your loudest one.
Your Practice
Write what you want to say — all of it, uncensored — in a private note. Don't send it. Wait until tomorrow. Then decide what, if anything, actually needs to be said and how to say it clearly without the heat.
The Architects
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1 (Gregory Hays translation, 2002)