The Paradox of Patience. To be or not be: that is the question | by Daniel McAuley | Medium

We all know the advice given by Prudentius that “patience is a virtue”. As a boy, I heard this aphorism with alarming regularity in the form of admonition from my mother. As an adult, I learned to appreciate the value of forbearance as I invested in my future through education. And today, I work for a company trying to change its industry along with the lives of millions of people, which, of course, will not happen overnight. How poor are they that have not patience! -Iago, Othello On the other hand, the early bird catches the worm, there’s much to be said for having a sense of urgency, and we all know that startups are “supposed” to move fast and break things. That these adages contradict my mother’s sage wisdom prompted me to try and resolve the apparent inconsistency between exercising temporal restraint on the one hand, and seizing the day on the other. I wanted to understand when to be patient and when to be impatient. When I brought up my thoughts on the topic of patience with my

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