BY CAROL TAVRIS
How angry are you these days? Me, too.
When my husband and I lived in New York City, we frequented a local Chinese restaurant. Over time, I couldn’t help noticing I kept getting a theme in the fortune cookies:
• Watch your temper. Short temper is a loss of face.
• He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
• Anger, like fog, often distorts the way.
• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
I thought these fortunes elegant and beautiful, and was struck by how different they were from pop-psych advice pervading American culture:
• Lose your temper. Expressing anger shows your status.
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