The Wisdom of Patience

With time, our brains develop clever artifices to help solve common problems. These repeated concepts are called heuristics: algorithms, procedures or rules of thumb that simplify decision making.

When we rely on heuristics for making decisions and solving problems, we s...

• If given a price worth waiting, people will naturally demonstrate Patience.
• But that often creates high expectations, which may lead to misconceptions.
• Patience combined with an awareness of the situation is the key.
• We live in a fast-moving world & we are habituated ...

The kind of patience that leads to success is not the same as waiting. Waiting has no benefits. Investing time doesn't do anything on its own.

The kind of patience needed for success is an active, self-doubting kind of patience. It's putting in enormous amounts of work, review...