In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Patience”. Listen to them as they discern one type of patience from another. Can one be stoically patient in one context and impatient in another? Is patience always a virtue? What can we do when we feel impatient? What have poets from different cultural backgrounds got to say about patience?
Dictionary Definition
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/patience
The Patience of Job
https://www.gotquestions.org/patience-of-Job.html
Types of patience:
https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/dam/az/PDF/2020/covid-19-toolkit/Patience.pdf
Stoicism as a way to learn patience
https://www.stoicsimple.com/stoicism-as-a-way-to-learn-patience-acceptance-be-calm/
Laughter and Tears IX - Kahlil Gibran
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/laughter_and_tears_ix_21303
On his Blindness by John Milton
https://www.owleyes.org/text/on-his-blindness/read/text-poem
The marshmallow experiment debunked
https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/
Most patient animals in the world
https://learningmole.com/most-patient-animals-in-the-world/
Top 10 most patient countries
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/top-10-most-patient-countries
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-variation-in-patience?tab=table
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2019/0729/Why-wealth-and-patience-appear-to-go-hand-in-hand
Exposure to disaster causes impatience
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-03-today-exposure-disaster-impatience-children.html
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