I reprogrammed myself to no longer be annoyed. Here is how: I started by learning how to do breath meditation. It is a basic attention exercise when I put all

I reprogrammed myself to no longer be annoyed. Here is how: I started by learning how to do breath meditation. It is a basic attention exercise when I put all my attention into my breathing, in the belly or at the nostrils, the same way I pay attention to where paintbrush touches the paper. I then committed myself to immediately start breath meditation whenever I found myself annoyed. I practiced primarily in three areas: loud and high-pitched noises, waiting for something, and work meetings. Anytime it happened, I would, internally, go into putting my attention to my breath. After a while, I noticed that my "catch" would happen sooner. When I was first starting out, it would happen when I was already full-on feeling annoyed. But then I started catching myself when I was "beginning to get annoyed", and then when "about to begin getting annoyed". Eventually, my emotional response to these annoying events, which I now believe to be largely learned, has become unwired, and I no longer experience that feeling, emotional state, and all the debilitating consequences. Sure, it still happens now and then. And I'm still bothered by noises which are too loud-- I wear ear plugs often. But overall, this has been a huge deal in terms of changing my "quality of experience" day-to-day.