If every time someone you know speaks, your hands reflexively clench; if you follow someone’s work obsessively, driven by annoyance and resentment; if the mere mention of someone’s name causes you to furiously type out your angst; if you feel so moved by your negative feelings towards someone or their work that you have to let the world know immediately — you’ve already lost, every time.

There are people and ideas I don’t like in the world, so I resolve to give them no power over me at all. Anger is expensive. Try indifference.