Many high achievers have talked about the value of patience in their
work, Thomas Eddison when trying to come up with the idea of the light
bulb said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve just found 1000 ways that won’t
work.” To be fair, if he’d just drawn himself having a really good idea,
he could of just got the design down straight away! Bleedin time
waster! Although Eddison’s quote obviously doesn’t work for everyone, I
mean a pilot can’t crash a plane and proudly announced “Ladies and
gentlemen, I have found a way of flying a plane that doesn’t work”. But
you can see his point!
So if patience is so great, why do we live in a society where everyone is constantly in a rush? We all want things instantly, cos we just hate waiting. Us Brits are often given credit with being patient, but I think that is a myth. For example with the idea that we love queueing. This is not true! People in queues are often restless and rude, we don’t like queueing, we just accept it as a fact of life. I mean we accept that we have to go to the toilet, but you don’t get people going “Ahh there’s the British for you, always weeing, they love a good urinal those Brits!” What passes for patience in these situations is people being furious, but also being too timid to say so.
The fact is, great things take time. I think our society is summed up by the Queen lyrics “I want it all, I want it now” and to a lesser extent, “I see a little silhouetto of a man”. We’re all fixated on fast food, next day delivery, fastest ever broadband and get rich quick schemes! Fewer and fewer people are trying those get rich slow schemes, where you have to painstakingly save for the future, Mostly because none of us have the extra money to save with anyway. Of course there also don’t get rich at all schemes, where you just sit in your pants waiting for someone to give you money.
We’re all impatient sometimes, waiting for that cheque to arrive or when will so and so get back, or how long to do have to keep this body in the bath of acid before it dissolves. But there is a useful phrase which helps in times like this, it goes, “Wait”. I remember another phrase that used to go “Softly softly catchy monkey” . . . Yeah I never understood it either!
Still do look after yourselves, and each other.
So if patience is so great, why do we live in a society where everyone is constantly in a rush? We all want things instantly, cos we just hate waiting. Us Brits are often given credit with being patient, but I think that is a myth. For example with the idea that we love queueing. This is not true! People in queues are often restless and rude, we don’t like queueing, we just accept it as a fact of life. I mean we accept that we have to go to the toilet, but you don’t get people going “Ahh there’s the British for you, always weeing, they love a good urinal those Brits!” What passes for patience in these situations is people being furious, but also being too timid to say so.
The fact is, great things take time. I think our society is summed up by the Queen lyrics “I want it all, I want it now” and to a lesser extent, “I see a little silhouetto of a man”. We’re all fixated on fast food, next day delivery, fastest ever broadband and get rich quick schemes! Fewer and fewer people are trying those get rich slow schemes, where you have to painstakingly save for the future, Mostly because none of us have the extra money to save with anyway. Of course there also don’t get rich at all schemes, where you just sit in your pants waiting for someone to give you money.
We’re all impatient sometimes, waiting for that cheque to arrive or when will so and so get back, or how long to do have to keep this body in the bath of acid before it dissolves. But there is a useful phrase which helps in times like this, it goes, “Wait”. I remember another phrase that used to go “Softly softly catchy monkey” . . . Yeah I never understood it either!
Still do look after yourselves, and each other.
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