You Can't Make Me Angry

Book excerpt: "A measure of the effectiveness of communication is the result it produces. If you don't like the results you are getting when communicating with another person, there's a great deal you can do about it ... For physical sobriety, we had to give up drinking, and for emotional sobriety we have to give up blaming others. No longer can we say, "You made me angry!" Instead we must accept personal responsibility for our emotional state. This much responsibility may seem extreme, yet in fact it is a great freedom. Henceforth, no person or situation can upset us if we don't give them or it permission to do so. What could be greater freedom than that?"--Cover.