Donald Robertson

you know we get angry with our perceived enemies but we end up taking it out on our friends as well if we're not careful so people massively underestimate the negative consequences of anger like and so usually in therapy what people find is yes anger your own anger is doing you more harm than the thing the politician said on tv or somebody not sending you a christmas card or the thing

you know we get angry with our perceived enemies but we end up taking it out on our friends as well if we're not careful so people massively underestimate the negative consequences of anger like and so usually in therapy what people find is yes anger your own anger is doing you more harm than the thing the politician said on tv or somebody not sending you a christmas card or the thing

you know we get angry with our perceived enemies but we end up taking it out on our friends as well if we're not careful so people massively underestimate the negative consequences of anger like and so usually in therapy what people find is yes anger your own anger is doing you more harm than the thing the politician said on tv or somebody not sending you a christmas card or the thing

Not maybe in every case, but really for practical purposes in the majority of cases that we end up dealing with. So Socrates took it way further, but nevertheless, there's something really interesting about the point that he's making.

Not maybe in every case, but really for practical purposes in the majority of cases that we end up dealing with. So Socrates took it way further, but nevertheless, there's something really interesting about the point that he's making.

Not maybe in every case, but really for practical purposes in the majority of cases that we end up dealing with. So Socrates took it way further, but nevertheless, there's something really interesting about the point that he's making.

i speaking of anger and frustration i seem to remember you saying that you thought it would be impossible to write this book i did think it was impossible why um i really did i thought it was impossible to write it uh because i thought socrates was too complex a character the peloponnesian war is really annoying um there's like

i speaking of anger and frustration i seem to remember you saying that you thought it would be impossible to write this book i did think it was impossible why um i really did i thought it was impossible to write it uh because i thought socrates was too complex a character the peloponnesian war is really annoying um there's like

i speaking of anger and frustration i seem to remember you saying that you thought it would be impossible to write this book i did think it was impossible why um i really did i thought it was impossible to write it uh because i thought socrates was too complex a character the peloponnesian war is really annoying um there's like

something like 300 greek states were involved in it it went on for 27 years so the politics of it and the history of it are so complex right i thought how can i summarize that and condense it into a book and have the life of socrates as a philosopher

something like 300 greek states were involved in it it went on for 27 years so the politics of it and the history of it are so complex right i thought how can i summarize that and condense it into a book and have the life of socrates as a philosopher

something like 300 greek states were involved in it it went on for 27 years so the politics of it and the history of it are so complex right i thought how can i summarize that and condense it into a book and have the life of socrates as a philosopher

have some discussion of philosophy and philosophical dialogues and have some modern psychology and fit it all into 50 000 words i it just seemed like it would take you know three different books right but then i don't know how exactly i changed my mind but what i realized was that i could maybe i think what i i did was i gave up trying to attempt a more academic history and

have some discussion of philosophy and philosophical dialogues and have some modern psychology and fit it all into 50 000 words i it just seemed like it would take you know three different books right but then i don't know how exactly i changed my mind but what i realized was that i could maybe i think what i i did was i gave up trying to attempt a more academic history and

have some discussion of philosophy and philosophical dialogues and have some modern psychology and fit it all into 50 000 words i it just seemed like it would take you know three different books right but then i don't know how exactly i changed my mind but what i realized was that i could maybe i think what i i did was i gave up trying to attempt a more academic history and

And I said from the outset, I'm going to approach this like I'm writing a movie screenplay. And so it'll be a kind of dramatized version. I'm going to make it as close to the historical sources as I possibly can, but I'm going to have to take two characters and points and combine them together for simplicity.

And I said from the outset, I'm going to approach this like I'm writing a movie screenplay. And so it'll be a kind of dramatized version. I'm going to make it as close to the historical sources as I possibly can, but I'm going to have to take two characters and points and combine them together for simplicity.

And I said from the outset, I'm going to approach this like I'm writing a movie screenplay. And so it'll be a kind of dramatized version. I'm going to make it as close to the historical sources as I possibly can, but I'm going to have to take two characters and points and combine them together for simplicity.

I'm going to have to massively abbreviate some of his arguments and just give like key selections out of them. And I'm going to have to figure out ways to, you know, to kind of simplify the history of the Peloponnesian war. So, You know, I'm kind of surprised that I managed to compress all of that into one book. But, you know, I thought very long and hard about how to do it.

I'm going to have to massively abbreviate some of his arguments and just give like key selections out of them. And I'm going to have to figure out ways to, you know, to kind of simplify the history of the Peloponnesian war. So, You know, I'm kind of surprised that I managed to compress all of that into one book. But, you know, I thought very long and hard about how to do it.