Dealing with difficult people tests your patience.
Tardy suppliers who keep you waiting spark anger.
Repeating things over and over can stretch your temper.
Repeating the same old story makes your body twitch because people won’t listen. It annoys you.
We know that patience is important. But achieving it is difficult.
If you think it’s not important, consider how valuable it can be if you are an investor. Impatience can lead you to sell your shares or pull out of an investment before it reaches its peak. Impatience can also prevent you from accumulating wealth over the long term. Stick with investments to achieve improved financial gains.
I am not giving investment advice. I am not qualified to do that. I’m using an example, that’s all.
Patience is situational. You can be patient with one area in your life, but impatient in another.
Take fishing. Do you know the chaotic ski boaters in False Bay during frenzied fishing? One ski boat will find fish, then others will try to catch fish next to the boat. The new arrivals don’t catch anything. Then they hear on their phones that another ski boat is catching fish. They rush off to find the elusive boat. You see boats across the water rushing to and fro trying to find fish. At the end of the day, they’ve caught very little or no fish at all. That’s impatience for you.
Yet, patient fishermen go out to sea. They find a place where they think there will be fish. They drop anchor and wait, even if it means waiting the whole day. Sometimes they receive rewards for their efforts.
Far better than petrol burners speeding all over the place.
Patience is vital for learning new skills. Impatient people who want to skip forward and go on to the next step, or four or five steps ahead. They stay stuck at a basic skill level. Then they wonder why their efforts are so pathetic and unrewarding.
Take a simple thing like drawing. Many say, “I’d love to draw.” But, few have the patience for the basic steps. These include contour, direction, weight, and drawing circles, lines, and spheres. They want to draw a perfect drawing off the bat. It doesn’t work like that. To get a basic grounding in drawing will take you at least a year. Don’t believe the experts and their three-day drawing courses.
Impatience leads to a hot temper. A hot temper can destroy relationships. It’s amazing how a hot temper can boil and boil. It keeps boiling until it explodes and obliterates everything in its way. The results are: destruction of relationships, loss of esteem, and loss of money.
Many great minds have thought about patience and impatience:
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” – Chinese Proverb
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – A.A. Milne
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