So, this is great for making one side of the case of what it is sometimes helpful to be impatient. But, feeling like if this were a schoolyard, and we were picking teams, and one team was Team Impatience, then Team Patience would definitely pick me, so I think I can say a few things about where we benefit from patience, lest we forget to reverse all advice and risk thinking impatience is better than it is due to selection biases.
Some things in favor of patience:
Avoid expensive wasted effort by cheaply stopping to consider things first
Sometimes waiting (for more information, for better conditions, etc.) is the best course of action
Moving quickly risks over-extending and losing ground
Further, as people age they seem to move from being less to more patient. I think there’s a lot going on there, so it’s hard to read too much into it, but it does suggest there is also virtue in patience, it just optimizes for different things.
Anway, none of this is to take away from your many great points about the value of impatience and the things it delivers, only to add some additional nuance I think this post leaves out in isolation.
So, this is great for making one side of the case of what it is sometimes helpful to be impatient. But, feeling like if this were a schoolyard, and we were picking teams, and one team was Team Impatience, then Team Patience would definitely pick me, so I think I can say a few things about where we benefit from patience, lest we forget to reverse all advice and risk thinking impatience is better than it is due to selection biases.
Some things in favor of patience:
Avoid expensive wasted effort by cheaply stopping to consider things first
“measure twice, cut first”
hammock driven development
writing usefully
Sometimes waiting (for more information, for better conditions, etc.) is the best course of action
Moving quickly risks over-extending and losing ground
Further, as people age they seem to move from being less to more patient. I think there’s a lot going on there, so it’s hard to read too much into it, but it does suggest there is also virtue in patience, it just optimizes for different things.
Anway, none of this is to take away from your many great points about the value of impatience and the things it delivers, only to add some additional nuance I think this post leaves out in isolation.