Stay frosty and alert

12 Apr 2025

Be calm and kind and keep a round in the chamber.

Me

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Matthew 5:9

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 15:1

Calm is contagious.

Kevin Kelley

True human strength doesn’t lie in bursts of energy but in indestructible calm.

Leo Tolstoy

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

Corporal Hicks: We’re all in strung out shape, but stay frosty and alert.

Aliens

Sheik Ilderim: Balthasar is a good man. But until all men are like him, we must keep our swords bright.

Judah Ben-Hur: And our intention true.

Ben Hur

What does it mean to be Samurai? To devote yourself utterly to a set of moral principles. To seek a stillness of your mind. And to master the way of the sword.

The Last Samurai

Venting doesn’t reduce anger

Despite what popular culture says, letting out your anger doesn’t help. Instead lower your fight or flight response (decrease arousal) with deep breathing, meditation, yoga, etc.

Sophie L. Kjærvik, Brad J. Bushman, A meta-analytic review of anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal: What fuels or douses rage?, Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 109, 2024.