Does The Tantrum Help? | 6 Stoic Reminders You Need to Hear

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Does the tantrum help? It was unexpected. It sucks. It's gonna hurt.

Things happen, things that are not our fault, things that we didn't expect, things that are going to cause problems. From travel delays to embezzling employees, from world events to family drama, fortune behaves as she pleases, the Stoics tell us, and often it seems that she pleases to displease us. Okay. But what does getting upset about this do? Does yelling and screaming change anything?

Does spiraling fix it? Does finding someone to blame make you feel better for more than a few minutes? We've been quoting that great Phoebe Bridger's line recently I've been known to throw a tantrum when things are not the way I imagine them. Does the tantrum help? You tell your children it doesn't, you tell them that it doesn't get them what they want, you tell them that it's a bad look, you tell them that you don't reward that kind of behavior, you tell them it's no longer age appropriate, yet here you are getting upset with the person behind the airline counter.

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