A: Very well. If someone were to call you a bird that was too stupid to flap its wings, would this make you angry? Q: No. A: Why not? Q: Because it isn’t at all true. A: Yet when you are called stupid, it makes you angry. Because something within you entertains the possibility that you might, in fact, be. Then something else within you grows irritated by the idea that you might be. This internal conflict manifests itself as anger.
