Are you friends with your anger? I struggled with suppressing my anger for years. I still struggle with it.

Buddhists believe all emotions are from One Energy, and that you need to befriend all of your emotions.

From experience, I observed that suppressing anger and avoiding my emotions actually caused me to feel less happiness & love.

Obsessing over shitcoins, spending the majority of my time on Clubhouse and listening to podcasts & audiobooks was a way to distract me from my emotions.

It wasn’t until I started prioritizing my mind & body through making commitments to myself and keeping them that I eventually found my emotions again.

The advice from the book is to acknowledge your anger, recognize it and observe it - only then can you do something about it.

If you are feeling or experiencing anything in this list, you might want to acknowledge you have repressed anger and find one thing in your life you can change to befriend all of your emotions.

Is it wake up earlier, meditate more, read more books on mindset / self, exercise more, spend more time with loved ones, have more fun?

For me it’s all of the above + continuing to find new good habits.

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Keeping commitments you’ve made with yourself is a big one. Breaking them starts to compound into a general feeling of low self worth. It’s weird, but the smallest commitments matter a lot, maybe more, than the big ones. By taking them seriously it also helps you say no to promises you are unlikely to keep.

Getting fit and eating healthy helps *a lot*.

If the body is rotting, so is the mind. They are one.

Only if this pillar is rock solid, does it make sense to work on other less tangible things.

For me it was actually the mindset first.

I was not in the proper mindset to even recognize I needed to workout more and eat healthier.

Working on mindset imo is just as important as training and eating properly

Ironically, bitcoin provides the ultimate escape from your emotions. It provides an endless intellectual rabbit hole to dive down, head first. What you find at the bottom of the rabbit hole is that you’re ultimately chasing the dragon and avoiding uncomfortable emotions in the quest for more knowledge. It took me quite some time to come to that realization.

I only came to that realization this year!

Recognizing your anger is half the battle. Once you stop running away from it, there is room for calm.