A Developmental Moment #5: Patience as a Concept and Practice

Jeffrey Flesch
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
5 min readMar 4, 2021

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Expanding our Patience While Limiting our Reactivity By Understanding and Practicing Our Emotional Intelligence

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The past few weeks, I’ve been thinking more about patience, and just how important being patient is in all aspects of life. For sure, patience was, and is, something that I continue to be present to, as patience was, and still is in some ways, something that is a developmental opportunity for me.

How do you feel about the concept and practice of patience? Do you think it affects how we interpret the world, and how we, for instance, function at home and work?

I think it does affect all aspects of our lives, whether we are aware or not.

In this post, we’ll explore a couple of ways to expand the concept of patience by unpacking the stimulus response system, and by exploring ways we can increase our patience, or, conversely, decrease our reactivity. Ready? Good. Here we go.

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The Stimulus Response System

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Jeffrey Flesch
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Interests include personal and professional development, increasing access to higher education, and finding new ways to create inspiration and equity.