Wait your turn

When I was a kid I was always taught to wait my turn, not that it took much of an effort as I have never been the cut the line kind of person. My daughter is much the same but I wonder if it is because one of the first phrases she learned was, "be patient".

She is very polite, very patient and will allow others the space to take their turn, even if it is her turn. I wonder if I have set her up for a lifetime of waiting for her opportunity, or the patience will mean that she is able to see the big picture and invest long.

I hope the latter of course.

Patience is one of those things that we think people should have, but rarely exercise ourselves and this is highly pronounced in the cryptosphere. Everyone know to invest long but nearly everyone continually sells earlier than they think they should have in hindsight. At least sometimes.

I wonder though that if one believes that the future of Blockchain and digital currencies are so bright, what is the rush? Of course there are people who choose our try to live off crypto earnings but it seems everyone is in a hurry to unburden themselves. I'd there some psychological reason for this behaviour?

Well it is probably tied to risk aversion as the longer something is kept, the more exposure to risk it receives. Maybe it comes from our past inability to store anything we considered highly valuable which mostly centered around food. I dunno but long holds are seemingly not what we are made for.

It is interesting to think that we have likely all heard the saying, "patience is a virtue" yet most of us err on the side of impatience or, procrastination. Laziness is not the same as patience, as the work for the result has to be done before the result from waiting is possible. Also, there can be a great deal many other things done while waiting.

These days people get bored if they have nothing to do and the go to process is to stare at a screen for distraction. For me, when I have "nothing" to do, I turn to Steem because I am able to actively wait for the future by participating in the present. Not many startup investments allow for the investor to actively keep using their value as they choose and even have a direct impact on the outcomes.

Most investors sit relatively silently with fingers crossed and their stake locked up and untouchable for years. Invest into Steem and you can use the stake to consume and even make significantly more earnings along the way. It is pretty cool.

I am outwardly patient for the most part while internally I am likely much like others, I would love some fast movement in a positive direction. You know, "are we there yet?" kind of stuff. But I also understand that things that happen too fast are also less stable, less firm.

For illustrative purposes, a pine tree harvested for wood in Australia is a soft wood, in Finland a hard wood. The difference in growth is the reason why with the Finnish trees taking over twice as long to be ready for harvesting. Which builds a better house? I don't know, but the Finnish one definitely makes better quality furniture.

How patient are you for the future to arrive? Maybe it also depends on what you expect that future to deliver. If you knew you were going to die in 3 years that would seem like a very short time yet, in a highly valuable crypto future - an eternity.

I hope at least my patience will benefit my daughter, just in case I screwed her over by teaching her not to push in front of others.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
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