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Quote card: An emotion can only be controlled or destroyed by another emotion contrary thereto, and with more power for controlling emotion.

“An emotion can only be controlled or destroyed by another emotion contrary thereto, and with more power for controlling emotion.”

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677), Part 4, Proposition 7 (R. H. M. Elwes translation)

Nerves before an interview do not vanish by willpower. Let a stronger feeling, like pride in what you can do, push them aside.

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