Miscellaneous
You can't control the thought that creeps into your head but, you can control what happens next, you can control your emotions. Jason has had 40+ years experience in life as seen by the statement made in the first sentence. It doesn't come over night and it takes a long time to learn to be calm and cool under pressure. The military trains its troops to do the same thing whether they are on the battlefield or at home station conducting real world training exercises. Could a lot of our problems, concerns, complaints be better heard if we took that one second to take a breath and think things through instead of calling each other names to feel justified for our anger?