Patience
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Scientific perspectives
In psychology and in cognitive neuroscience, patience is studied as a decision-making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short-term, versus a more valuable reward in the long-term.[2]
In a 2005 study
Patience of human users in the online world has been a subject of research. In a 2012 study[4] of tens of millions of users who watched videos on the Internet, Krishnan and Sitaraman showed that users lose patience in as little as two seconds while waiting for their chosen video to start playing.[5] Users who connect to the Internet at faster speeds are less patient than their counterparts at slower speeds, demonstrating a link between the human expectation of speed and human patience. These and other studies of patience led commentators to conclude that the rapid pace of technology is rewiring humans to be less patient.[6]
Religious perspectives
Judaism
Patience and fortitude are prominent themes in Judaism. The Talmud extols patience as an important personal trait. The story of Micah, for example, is that he suffers many challenging conditions and yet endures, saying "I will wait for the God who saves me." Patience in God, it is said, will aid believers in finding the strength to be delivered from the evils that are inherent in the physical life.[7]
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Christianity
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Islam
Patience with steadfast belief in
We will certainly test you with a touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life, and crops. Give good news to those who patiently endure— who, when faced with a disaster, say, “Surely to Allah we belong and to Him we will ˹all˺ return.”
Similarly, patience is mentioned in hadith
Narrated Aisha: I asked Allah's rasūl about the plague. He said, "That was a means of torture which Allah used to send upon whomsoever He wished, but He made it a source of mercy for the believers, for anyone who is residing in a town in which this disease is present, and remains there and does not leave that town, but has patience and hopes for Allah's reward, and knows that nothing will befall him except what Allah has written for him, then he will get such reward as that of a martyr."
In Islamic tradition, Job (Arabic: أيوب, romanized: Ayyūb) demonstrated patience and steadfast belief in Allah. Ibn Kathir narrates the story in this manner: Job was a very rich person with much land, and many animals and children — all of which were lost and soon he was struck with disease as a test from Allah. He remained steadfast and patient in his prayers to Allah, so Allah eventually relieved him of the disease, gave him double the money he lost, and raised to life twice the number of children who had died before him.[12]
Buddhism
In
Tibetan Buddhist
Ask yourself, "Where did I learn this patience that I practice? I learned it from those who have been angry at me... Therefore, all the peace and happiness that I enjoy in this and future lives as a result of my practice of patience has come from the angry person... How kind this person is! How much benefit this person has given me!"[15]
Hinduism
Patience/forbearance is considered an essential virtue in Hinduism.[16] In ancient literature of Hinduism, the concept of patience is referred to with the word pariksaha (patience and forbearance, Sanskrit: परिषहा),[17] and several other words such as sahiṣṇutā (patient toleration, Sanskrit: सहिष्णुता),[18] titiksha (forbearance, Sanskrit: तितिक्षा),[19] sah or sahanshilata (suffer with patience, Sanskrit: सह, सहनशीलता)[20] and several others.
Patience, in Hindu philosophy, is the cheerful endurance of trying conditions and the consequence of one's action and deeds (
Ahimsa (non-violence) | not being violent to any human being or any living being at any time either through one's action, with words one speaks or writes, or in one's thoughts[24] |
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Satya | expressing and acting with truth |
Asteya | not coveting of another's property through any act of one's mind, speech, or body |
Brahmacharya | willingness to remain a bachelor by one's actions of mind, speech, or body |
Daya | unconditional kindness to everyone and all creatures |
Arjava | the refusal to deceive or wrong others either by the performance or by non-performance of actions of one's mind, speech, or body |
Kshama | acceptance of suffering while forgiving all pleasant or unpleasant things, such as praise or blows from others |
Dhriti | the will to remain of calm mind and spirit during periods of gain or loss of wealth or relatives |
Mitahara | moderation and restraint in consumption of food, drinks, and wealth |
Saucha | the cleansing of the body by earth and water; and of the mind by the pursuit of understanding oneself |
The classical literature of Hinduism exists in many Indian languages. For example,
Meher Baba
The spiritual teacher Meher Baba stated that "[O]ne of the first requirements of the [spiritual] aspirant is that he should combine unfailing enthusiasm with unyielding patience.... Spiritual effort demands not only physical endurance and courage, but also unshrinking forbearance and unassailable moral courage."[27]
Philosophical perspectives
Levius fit patientia, quicquid corrigere est nefas
(What cannot be quite cured, is made easier by patience)
— Horace, Odes I.24 ("To Virgil on the Death of Quintilius")
In his 1878 book Human, All Too Human, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that "being able to wait is so hard that the greatest poets did not disdain to make the inability to wait the theme of their poetry". He notes that "Passion will not wait", and gives the example of cases of duels, in which the "advising friends have to determine whether the parties involved might be able to wait a while longer. If they cannot, then a duel is reasonable [because]... to wait would be to continue suffering the horrible torture of offended honor...".[citation needed]
See also
- Marshmallow test– Study on delayed gratification by psychologist Walter Mischel
- Moral character – Steady moral qualities in people
- Queueing § Psychology– Psychological insight into people's queuing behavior
- Self control § Research– Research into an aspect of inhibitory control
- Slow movement (culture) – Social movement
- Time – Order of the past, present, and future
- Toleration – Allowing or permitting a thing, person, or idea of which one disapproves
- Waiting (disambiguation)
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- ^ a b Krishnan, S. Shunmuga; Sitaraman, Ramesh K. (November 2012). "Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior" (PDF). ACM Internet Measurement Conference. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-11-13.
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- Yenigun, Sami (10 January 2013). "In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast is Never Fast Enough". NPR Morning Edition. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
- "Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient". The Boston Globe. February 2013. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
- Carr, Nicholas (11 November 2012). "Patience is a Network Effect". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ Firestone, Reuven (2002). "Patience". Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
- ^ Ford, Thomas (1811), The Dignity and Duty of Magistrates. A Sermon [on Job xxix. 14–17] Preached... at the Assizes... in St. Martin Church, Leicester, August 8, 1811, The High-Sheriff and the Grand Jury, p. 8
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- ^ Hein, David; Harned, David Baily (2015). "Leadership and Unnatural Virtues: George Washington and the Patience of Power". Patience: How We Wait Upon the World. Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock.
- ^ see also: Quran 3:195-200, 41:24-35, and 11:114-115
- ISBN 978-977-6005-17-4. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
- ^ Berzin, Alexander (2012-06-08). "The Ten Perfections in Theravada, Mahayana and Bon". StudyBuddhism.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
- ^ "Buddhavagga: The Buddha". Dhammapada. Translated by Buddharakkhita, Acharya. Buddhist Publication Society. 1985. 184. Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
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- Madigan, T. (2009). "Schopenhauer's compassionate morality". Philosophy Now. 52: 16–17.
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- "PariSahA". Sanskrit Dictionary. Germany. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02.
- "pari-shah". Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary. 1899. p. 602.
- ^ "Sanskrit words related to "Patience" in Sanskrit Dictionary, Germany". Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. See also Monier Williams Translation of Sanskrit Concepts.
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- "Titiksha". Sanskrit Dictionary. Germany. Archived from the original
- "Sahanshilata". Sanskrit Dictionary. Germany. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02.
- "SAH". Macdonell Sanskrit Dictionary. p. 343. Archived from the original on 2019-08-25.