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The Cost of Rushing

traditional wisdom

Impatience is rarely neutral. It pushes decisions before they are ripe, forces conversations before they are ready, and tries to secure outcomes that only time and faithfulness can produce. Waiting is not passivity. It is often the more demanding form of trust.

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Impatience often produces the very problems it tries to avoid.

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