Anger
What it is telling youYou have handed someone else the power over your outcome. Take it back.
How He Sees It.
Eric’s thinking on anger runs through blame. Reading Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, he saw that blaming someone else feels like protection, but it gives away the only thing that can fix the situation: the power to change your own part in it.
So anger, in his reading, is often a sign of powerlessness. The way out is not to suppress it but to ask what you could have done differently, and to let your ego take the hit.
On Anger, Word for Word.
Each line links to the moment it was said or written.
“When you push blame, you are effectively saying, I give you the power to decide whether I succeed or fail.”
“We gain the power to change instead of being powerless and angry.”
“A good place to start is from getting self-awareness of what triggers and angers you.”
What He Does With It.
Looks for his own share of what went wrong, even when someone else made the mistake.
Episode 9: Empower Yourself by Owning Your Life, Mindset, Habits, and IdentityAsks which matters more, the goal or the ego, and picks the goal.
Episode 9: Empower Yourself by Owning Your Life, Mindset, Habits, and IdentityLearns his own triggers, so he can spot a problem before it repeats.
Chow’s Choice: Self Improvement and Self Love