One of the most valuable lessons I ever learned from my father was patience. Fishing was (and is) something that required patience, and fishing is something we did a lot of. Hunting, likewise, required patience, including sitting for hours at a time in a tree stand in temperatures around zero.
Patience – waiting – is also essential in attaining goals. If accumulating wealth is one’s goal, one has to learn how to defer actions, and how to give up immediate gratification to achieve longer-term goals.
This is why it’s interesting to see a piece on waiting from The Free Press’ Christine Rosen:
Waiting isn’t what it used to be. These days, we expect to be able to avoid the dullness of it—and not just when we are spending a day at a theme park. Nearly every moment of interstitial time can be filled with entertainment or communication. We turn to our smartphones to check email, text a…
