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This is the 10% happier podcast. We are doing today. We are taking a deep

dive on what for me at least is one of the thorniest and most destructive

states of mind available, anger.

I have made many of my dumbest decisions well in the grips of anger.

Anger can be tricky in all sorts of ways depending on your conditioning.

For some people, like me, it's a recurring demon that seduces you into stupidity.

For other people.

Anger is something they've never given themselves permission to feel,

and that can lead to its own whole set of problems.

That is actually the situation my conversation partner today has found himself in. He has

spent many years squelching anger and now it's showing up in all sorts of

unhelpful ways. Let me stop being coy and tell you who I'm talking to.

DJ Kashmir is the executive producer of this show.

Not only does he run this thing, but he also occasionally acts as a kind of reporter

or correspondent.

He's like a player coach. DJ is a pretty serious meditator and student of Buddhism,

and when he's struggling to apply his practice and learnings to his actual life,

he does this smart thing where he turns it into a story he can report on.

So for this episode, DJ went out and interviewed a trio of brilliant

darma teachers to get their advice on how to handle anger. Today you're going to hear me talk to

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