🎙️ Write and Release

✍️ A simple way to relieve anger? Write and release.

A recent study out of Japan found that writing down your reaction to a negative incident on a piece of paper and then getting rid of it helps release frustration.

The researchers said, “We were amazed that anger was eliminated almost entirely” after participants wrote and released.

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“Setbacks are not life sentences.”

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Final Thoughts

🔢 One Big Number: 30% — In the last 20 years, American men have reduced their time hanging out in-person with friends by 30%, per The Atlantic.

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