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Impatient Crazy-Makers

Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology

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The Importance of Patience

We can pack a lot into impatience and look at that as a virtue but it also is a sacrifice and it's also an adaptive strategy so we suffer impatience when we have a goal. Anything worthy in this life usually has begun with patience rather than impatience, she says. If you are impatient too often our lives are filled with unnecessary agitation second guessing bad decisions multiple marriages multiple children by different people there's just all kinds of crazy stuff that we do  when we are emotional decision makers. Some people are more likely than others to abandon an existing course of action for a new plan because they're overly patient sticking to the existing thing even if it's wrong like a bad marriage or

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