FlexiLingo
Ep. 274: Why This Mess Makes You So Angry
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- Relationships & psychology
Send us Fan Mail You walk into the kitchen. There's a cup on the counter. Mail beside it. A package that needs to be returned. Someone's shoes are in the middle of the floor. The dishwasher is clean but hasn't been emptied. There's a water bottle sitting three feet from the sink. Three feet. Not even far. And you can feel it happening before you've even set your own bag down. You are getting angry. Not mildly annoyed. Not...
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Okay, so you walk into the kitchen. There's a cup on the counter. Beside that, there's a stack of mail, and there's a package that needs to be returned, and someone's shoes are in the middle of the floor. The dishwasher is clean, but it hasn't been emptied. And there's a water bottle sitting on the counter three feet from the sink. Three feet, not
even far away. And you can feel it happening before you've even set your own bag down. You're getting angry, not just mildly annoyed,
not a little bothered, you are angry. And almost immediately, there's another thought that follows right behind it. And that thought says,
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