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EACH EMOTION ON THE EMOTION RACKET WILL GET SIMILAR TREATMENT THIS IS FOR FRUSTRATION   5 TAKEAWAYS  1) What emotion looks/feels like 2) Why might I be feeling this emotion  3) What is this emotion trying to tell me 4) Unchecked, How will emotion affect me short and long term 5) How to best manage emotion when it gets triggered   Here's a beginning script... Play around with it, cut it down, as you so desire Frustratio       Berloq     Somebody's frustrated.. "Check out the score" somebody get him a Snickers Frustration: We all know what it is.. things aren't going your way.. The new serving grip is just a new way to miss  New coach said I gotta attack more get to the net.. I don't get passed this much on the freeway.. look at the post-match stat sheet.. You're an equal opportunity sprayer. Its Errorfest 2026, tennis' version of Groundhog day, different day, same frustrating play.. Sometimes there ain't no fixing it,...

  Welcome to Frustration Nation—you don’t need a psychology degree to see it. Just watch someone try to board a plane, parallel park, or remember a forgotten password. We’re all a little frazzled these days: customer-service button-pushing hell (just let me speak to someone), Ticketmaster concert-buying purgatory only to be shut out, software updates that hijack your computer mid-email, autocorrect that could use a little more correcting.  The great modern works of comedy— Seinfeld , Curb Your Enthusiasm , The Office —are really just statements on existential frustration: the missed connection, the petty misunderstanding, the bureaucratic absurdity of our organizations. We laugh because we recognize ourselves in George Costanza melting down in a parking garage, or Michael Scott turning a simple task into a catastrophe. And somewhere beneath the humor sits a universal truth: frustration is everywhere we turn in modern life—in our commutes, our conversations, our am...

  Here are 10 illustration moments that could really make this chapter pop— where they live in the text and what the art-with-a-heart version could be. “Welcome to Frustration Nation…” opening montage (modern life chaos) Where: First paragraph (plane boarding / parallel parking / forgotten password / customer service purgatory). Illustration: A split-panel montage: someone stuck in a boarding line, someone sweating mid-parallel-park, someone glaring at a “Reset Password” screen, with tiny thought bubbles: “WHY.” The emotional vibe: low-grade daily rage, funny but real. Comedy as frustration mirror Where: Second paragraph (Seinfeld / Curb / The Office; Costanza / Michael Scott). Illustration: A living-room scene: a person watching a sitcom, laughing… but their reflection in the TV is stressed and frazzled. Or a “Costanza-style” meltdown silhouette in a parking garage with your narrator observing like a sociologist. Expectations vs. reality collision Where: ...