The best approach is to reject the first sparks of anger right away. Fight against it from the very start. Be careful not to let it trick you into giving in. Once anger starts carrying you away, it's hard to get back to a healthy state of mind. Why? Because reason becomes useless once you let passion into your mind. Once you give it any authority by your own free choice, it will do whatever it wants — not just what you're willing to allow. I repeat: you must meet this enemy and push it back at the border. Once it enters the city and gets past the gates, it won't let its prisoners limit its victory.
The best plan is to reject straightway the first incentives to anger, to resist its very beginnings, and to take care not to be betrayed into it: for if once it begins to carry us away, it is hard to get back again into a healthy condition, because reason goes for nothing when once passion has been admitted to the mind, and has by our own free will been given a certain authority, it will for the future do as much as it chooses, not only as much as you will allow it. The enemy, I repeat, must be met and driven back at the outermost frontier-line: for when he has once entered the city and passed its gates, he will not allow his prisoners to set bounds to his victory.