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The Nuance

How to Cultivate Patience, the Ancient Virtue We All Need Right Now

The way we live now discourages patience. It’s time to reprioritize this lost virtue.

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7 min readNov 12, 2020

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Two days before the Associated Press declared him the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden tried to settle his nation’s rattled nerves. “[Democracy]…

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Markham Heid
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I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.