Joe Hudson

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I usually care about the box more than that.

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Can you tell that story about one of your daughters was crying in the bathroom and you asked if she was pissed off?

Oh, yeah.

This fucking blew my head off.

And I think I really want you to tell it.

Wow.

I don't think I've ever heard a better explanation of why people transmute anger into sadness.

They don't get mad, they get sad.

They turn this displeasure outward to displeasure inward because sadness is prosocial and it causes people to come and take care of you, whereas anger is antisocial and it causes people to run away.

Fucking brilliant.

I think there's a difference as well.

I was telling you about this conversation I had with Charlie Hooper, and he's talking about people that move from victimhood status to action agency status to emotionally in tune status.

And it looks like you're actually going backward because previously you were also kind of ruled by your emotions, but not through transcending and including and alchemizing them.

but through them just being the winds of the day that sort of blew you around without you being able to step into them.

And I think maybe sort of raw, unaware anger is not too dissimilar to that.

You know, somebody who's raging and breaking things and unable to sort of hold themselves together.

I'm interested in that arc between like,

instinctual anger and intuition like intuitive anger perhaps yeah maybe that's the wrong terminology