UM 077: Patience Is Concentrated Strength

Patience – the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

All too often, we find ourselves getting impatient not only with ourselves but with others. Whether we become impatient with our kids or co-workers, or because we cannot hit that PR at the gym as quickly as we want, we often allow impatience to control us. As an old Chinese proverb says, “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.”

While we want things done our way, right now, life doesn’t work that way. As Bruce Lee once said, “Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.” While impatience lacks mental strength, the ability to learn patience, while difficult, is one of the most rewarding things a man can achieve.

In this episode of Untaming Masculinity, Dan and Brad discuss the topic of patience and how they’ve learned to develop it. They discuss various personal and professional situations where they showed impatience and learned valuable lessons along the way. They also dive into how we can develop the strength to be more patient both with ourselves and others. They discuss the importance of understanding that getting where you want takes reps and practice, both of which require time, patience, and discipline. The guys also provide tips to help answer the question, “How can we develop the strength to be more patient?”

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