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Building Patience Muscle
In the book you write a bit about patience and I guess building your patience muscle. One of my goals last year was to become more patient which probably sounds like a very strange goal but it's something that really works for me. The ability to be patient to let things take the time they take is actually a form of control right historically, women were told to cultivate patience while their husbands were living more exciting lives outside the home or ethnic minorities have been told used to be patient wait a few more decades until civil rights are complete. So cultivating patience then I think is just like it that really is another part of this kind of falling back into reality and the reality is that you can't hurry the
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