Rank tranquility over negative emotions

I recently Blinked the book “ A Guide to the Good Life”, and the “actionable advice” from Blinkist was fantastic. It simply said: “ Rank tranquility over negative emotions “.

The book covered this in-depth, but the basic idea revolves around stoicism and your ability to keep calm when anger and anxiety won’t help to improve the situation you’re in. A great example is being stuck in traffic…