We treat patience as a virtue for waiting rooms — something you endure. This episode argues it is a perceptual instrument: the thing that lets you see what fast looking cannot.
In this episode
- Why "be patient" is useless advice, and what to say instead
- Goethe’s unhurried step, and the difference between slow and attentive
- What gardeners understand that project managers do not
Patience is not the ability to wait. It is the ability to keep looking.
Full transcript below. Runs about thirty-eight minutes.