Anger is Very Costly
Story★★★★An Italian proverb warns, “Anger is a very expensive commodity.” The great maestro Toscanini was well known for his ferocious outbursts of anger. When members of his orchestra played badly, he would seize anything in sight and hurl it to the floor.
During rehearsal, someone played a flat note. Toscanini reacted by grabbing his own watch, which was very valuable, and smashing it beyond repair. Shortly after, he received from his devoted musicians a luxurious, velvet-lined box containing two watches—one, a beautiful gold timepiece; the other, a cheap watch on which was inscribed “for rehearsals only.”
The point
Conductor Toscanini's furious, expensive outbursts were gently mocked by his musicians' gift of a cheap 'rehearsal only' watch, showing how costly uncontrolled anger really is.