Stuff Mom said that turned out to be useful.

[Aristus]

40. "Count to ten before deciding if something is worth getting angry about."

That piece of advice prevented me from becoming a fly-off-the-handle, hair-trigger-temper jerk.

For decades, it was popular to believe that not expressing your anger and “getting it all out” meant that all that anger was building up inside you, and soon you would explode at the least provocation.

We now know that “bottling it all up” is a myth. Staying calm, being slow to anger, and measuring the need for an anger response is healthy, while ranting and raving all the time about everything is physically unhealthy, and will probably mark you out as a poorly socialized jerk.

Thanks for the good advice, Mom.