Most of us were taught that anger is a problem to manage, suppress, or apologize for. The ancient Greeks thought that was a path to a half-lived life.

This is the audio version of the Focus Now Training Newsletter — a weekly drop where Jon Macaskill breaks down the mindfulness, focus, and performance concepts from Men Talking Mindfulness into something you can act on this week.

This week's topic: what the ancient Greeks understood about anger that we've forgotten. Jon covers the concept of thumos — the spirited force of the soul — and why Aristotle called anger a virtue. He shares the four personal roots of his own anger, why suppression is like shaking a Coke can, and five things you can start doing differently today.

Paid newsletter subscribers get three deep resources: Mike LeBlanc's five-part framework for hard conversations, a four-week anger intelligence practice, and a thumos assessment. Subscribe at newsletter dot focusnowtraining dot com.

The full episode with Mike LeBlanc — Marine veteran, Harvard MBA, and founder of billion-dollar robotics company Foundation — is available now on Men Talking Mindfulness. Mike's book, What If Anger Is the Answer, drops August 25th.

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