CHAPTER 17
Patient
Patience is a desirable quality but in our culture of instant gratification it’s a rare one. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that we have twenty-four-hour shopping, microwave ovens, immediate access to information and entertainment on demand. But having access to what we want, when we want is weakening one of our greatest attributes – the ability to wait.
Research has shown that when children were given a choice of having one marshmallow now or two after completing a task, the children who were able to wait were more successful later in life. Having the ability to resist impulses matters. We may be born with different levels of patience. But we can all make improvements. It’s like any other skill; it can be developed with ...
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