If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same...
I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.
Just get out. Just leave.
It was honestly, it was torture.