RenaeK wrote:
What kind of patient do you mean?
I can be totally patient teaching a child something. I can happily wait half an hour for a child to recover from a meltdown and not get annoyed.
I CAN NOT stand in line and watch someone fumble over taking orders, I rock back and forth until people stare but I have to move or I'll explode. Waiting, anything where I'm waiting I'm impatient as hell.
I think it depends whether I think I deserve to be made to be patient in that situation. If I'm a customer, hurry up and serve me. If I'm at work with a kid, they deserve my patience and I should give it to them. I don't know how I learnt it, I just force myself to breathe and not react and WAIT.
I will have to echo this. Since I spent most of my life having to teach myself things because nobody had the patience or skill to get through to me, I will take forever to explain something to someone who is trying. But, if they don't try and are just being lazy, then I just tell them to reference a page in a book, a pdf file or something. I ain't gonna waste my time with someone who won't take their own time to improve themselves or are just lazy.
But, that's a bad attitude with today's students I'm told. "They have to be nurtured" and "Led"....f**k that....they're adults...grow up and be responsible.
So, yeah...no patience with people who won't take the time to learn something important. I spent my entire life teaching myself things because I had so few teachers that would try to reach me.
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