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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