What is Patience Are you a patient

What is Patience?

Are you a patient person? Why?

Do you have a lot of patience with children?

Is patience important? Why?

When was the last time you were rewarded for your patience?

How can you increase your patience?

Who or what in your life requires the most patience from you?

When during the day is your patience at its lowest and why?

When was the last time you ran out of patience with someone?

Do you know anyone who would try the patience of a saint?

Do you have any hobbies that require patience?

Have you ever met an impatient person who loves fishing?

What kinds of people do you have little or no patience with?

Do you think you’re getting more patient or impatient as you get older?

When does your patience wear thin?

Do you know what marshmallow test is?

How would you behave in a marshmallow test as a child and right now?

Have you ever had such situations in your life, when you were rewarded for waiting, and you failed your patience?

Q&A Imagine the situation

Imagine that you have a meeting to attend, when do you plan to come? -15 minutes in advance. -Right on time. -15 Minutes later.

The guy ahead of you in the line is taking forever to decide what he wants to buy. What do you do? -Sigh loudly -Politely ask if you can cut in front -Move him to the side, saying: "Make up your mind!"

You are taking your final test and you really need a good mark. But this guy next to you is chewing his chewing gum real loud and it makes you mad. What do you do? -Ignore him and concentrate -Ask him politely to stop -Make him swallow his chewing gum

You have a real boring annual safety class and it’s late May outside. Birds are chirping, sun is shining. You: -Stay till the class is over. There will be plenty of time to go out today. -Try to sneak out after you have been registered -Just forget about this useless class. I am out!

You make a bet with a friend as to which team would win the championship. Your friend wins and is laughing at the team you supported. You: -Laugh with him, since the game was awful. -Change the topic and ignore him. -Punch him in the face for being a jerk

An old lady is asking you for the way to a shop, even though she is standing right in front of it. -You politely show her the way. -You just point your finger over head. -Open your eyes, lady! Are you blind or what? !

You had a lovely celebration and stay over with your friends for the night. Your roommate snores and you have to get up to work in 6 hours. You: -Try to fall asleep. -Stand up and tickle him to make him turn. -Smack him with a pillow.

You are in a café for a dinner and you ordered a chicken. After waiting for an hour the waitress comes and offers you another dish and says there are no chicken available. You: -Eat the dish and never come here anymore. -Go to a mall around the corner and bring her one, then wait for another hour. -Ask for a manager, then tell him to fire the chef and the waitress along with him.

You are on the bus going to Zaporozhye and the person next to you listens to some heavy metal in his headphones on a really loud volume. When you ask him to make the volume down he just smirks. You: -Go on reading and forget about him -Change your seat -Loudly tell the driver that this guy is going out at next stop, and make it everyone’s problem

Two of your friends are almost fighting each other and the air is all charged. You: -Yell at them to chill out. -Try to figure out what their problem is. -Try to mediate and calm them both, taking maybe an hour to listen to them.

You are playing a video game and keep losing. It’s been over an hour and past ten attempts to get through that cursed spot in the game, and you keep losing it. You: -Turn the computer off and go have a tea. -Come on! I will do it! One more round! -Hit the screen with a keyboard and throw it out in the window.

Your friend comes to give back the money he loaned from you. It’s a big sum but he says: I have the money right here, but if you give me another year, I will give you double. You: -Wait for another year. You don’t need it urgently, and it will be a good profit too. -Ask him to sign a voucher, then hesitatingly agree. -No deal! I need those!

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