[raphaelb]

It seems as humans we jump on any chance to beat ourselves up for not doing, being, or having something.

Oh, I don't have a $1B company, I've got to beat myself up about it. Oh, I'm older than So and So 20 year old who sold his company for $15M. Oh, I'm too young to have the right experience to really tap into this niche. Oh, I spent too much on college and now have all this debt and need to get a real job instead of starting my business. Oh, I didn't go to college and everyone else my age has great connections from it.

Just stop playing A you lose, B you lose.

[seiji]

A reminder I find useful: Code, not anger.

Find yourself annoyed about something "unfair?" Focus on a problem you can actually fix instead.

If you find yourself upset about kids who went to a $40k/year private high school winning the world, just re-focus your attention on what you can do now. Code. Fix. Help a real person. Get out of your own head for a while.

Success and growth are fueled by output. Running circles in your mind about our broken world only serves to make you more efficient at feeling angry. Use your limited conscious hours every day to make the world a quantitatively better place.

Alternatively, http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/whipass/

[wickedchicken]

This basic principle, condensed into a comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2347

A smart way to avoid this is to realize that sometimes "your brain wants to feel bad, so it's determined to find a reason to feel that way." If you were feeling great and now feel awful because of a thought (or reading unrelated news), then this is probably what happened.