YOU MUST STOP AND THINK.
STRIP IT DOWN TO COMPONENTS.
SEE REALITY.

One of the most useful Stoic techniques is the “Strip-It” method. This is especially true if someone is any at you and you are feeling intimidated, or you are getting Angry. The steps are simple:

1. Stop what are perceiving at your “border” - before you react, before your ego gets involved.
2. Once stopped, take the event apart and see it from various angles and perspective.
3. See the event for what it really is - from the “cosmic” perspective. For example “I am getting angry because they scared me… they were playing a silly joke. They did not intend to make me angry”
4. Then react based on what is true, calmly and rationally.