Impatience has plagued me most of my life. I jokingly say there's a flower named after me: The Impatient. All kidding aside, those like me who suffer from impatience fail to make a distinction between hustle and impatience, so let me do that now: Impatience often leads to hustle, but hustle doesn’t always lead to impatience. While hustle gets things done, impatience ruins relationships and compromises your health.
Hustle is about being efficient and having a sense of urgency — great traits for entrepreneurs, founders and business owners. Impatience, on the other hand is the experience that time is running out and that someone or something is the obstacle to forward movement. It’s the slow line at the grocery store, the backed-up traffic, the person on their cell phone at the bottom of an escalator — all frustrating experiences for the person with a mission or a deadline.
Some people are just naturally more impatient than others. Scientist Andrew Huberman says that part of what's going on is that your internal metronome is going so fast that it isn't matching the reality of time at the moment. Here are some ways to take control of the internal metronome and overcome the most misunderstood experience of impatience.
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