If You Have A Bad Temper. Part 1

This is the first time that Telushkin has used “Part 1", so we are clearly onto a big topic.  He cites the Mishnah tract about the four kinds of temperament, focusing on the idea that it is more important to train oneself to be easily appeased, than it it is to be one who is slow to anger.

I expected the reverse.  I suppose he puts the emphasis this way because being easily appeased focuses more on the other person, while anger is something within ourselves.  He is consistent in his emphasis on "what we do to others" being more important than "what we do to ourselves."  He states that it is important to work on both aspects of the temperament.  Looking forward to how he parses this for tomorrow.