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Being patient in daily life

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Lesson 1

Episode topic: Patience

welcome to the listening Time Podcast hey everybody this is Connor and you're listening to episode 10027 of The Listening Time Podcast thank you all for listening today my voice...

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Lesson 2

Why patience matters

we all have room for improvement when it comes to patience so this should be a good topic for today's episode and uh hopefully it will inspire all of us to be a little bit more...

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Lesson 3

Podcast resources

during the conversation so if you're interested in that the link is in the description below this episode that's patreon.com USC conversations and if you want my Advanced podcas...

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Lesson 4

My struggle with patience

uh this is an area in which I need to improve a lot uh I am willing to admit that uh because I'm not the most patient person and I really want to improve in this area I uh look...

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Lesson 5

Improving patience every day

and I try to do so every day so I'm not talking uh from the perspective of someone who has tons and tons of patience uh I'm talking as someone who needs to improve in this area...

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Lesson 6

Patience in traffic

uh one of the worst things I'm sure a lot of you agree with me about this so if we're not patient then traffic can really bother us it can really Annoy Us and sometimes it can r...

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Lesson 7

What lose your cool means

there's no benefit to that by the way when we say that you lose your cool this means that you lose your patience and you snap you get mad you get really frustrated right so we d...

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Lesson 8

When frustration changes behavior

sometimes we can lose our cool and we can allow this situation or this person to frustrate us to the point where we act uh differently we don't do what we should do or maybe we...

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Lesson 9

Patience with difficult people

and you need to be patient with them so that can happen in the workplace that can happen uh just in public at stores with employees at certain companies in a lot of situations s...

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Lesson 10

Listening patiently to others

try to listen and sometimes people talk a lot or their story that they're telling takes a long time and you can get bored or you can start to uh get distracted or you can stop l...

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Lesson 11

Better relationships through patience

what other people are saying and if you do this if you demonstrate patience in this situation you're going to have better relationships people are going to like you more you're...

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Lesson 12

Patience in language learning

I'm a language learner learning a language takes a long time I constantly get questions from people uh asking about their language learning process and usually they express frus...

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Lesson 13

Slow progress is normal

majority of the time uh when people ask me this question uh it's not uh like these people are uh studying in the complete wrong way and they're wasting their time time and they...

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Lesson 14

Learning Spanish takes years

years and yet today over 10 years later I'm still in the process of learning Spanish not actively I don't actively study Spanish however I'm constantly learning new things new w...

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Lesson 15

Time needed for fluency

to a very high level of course you can reach an intermediate level uh in a pretty short period of time if you dedicate a lot of hours to it uh and you can even reach an advanced...

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Lesson 16

Patience with long-term goals

one example but when we want to achieve any goal we need patience if you want to lose weight that's not going to happen tomorrow right uh you can't just expect that to happen in...

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Lesson 17

Sticking with your goals

accept that this is going to take some time and uh eventually you'll reach your goal right if you stick with it but patience is necessary when we set goals and we want to to ach...

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Lesson 18

Patience with bad systems

that have uh governments that are uh not efficient and not very uh well-run and are not uh the best institutions with the best customer service and all of that all of us are in...

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Lesson 19

Waiting for things you cannot control

that period it was hard to have patience sometimes and that was something that really taught me to uh just wait and to not allow things that I can't control to uh negatively imp...

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Lesson 20

Why kids need patience

small people humans that have not learned to act properly behave well communicate effectively they don't know this yet they don't have these skills especially at Young ages so i...

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Lesson 21

Teaching children takes time

to exercise patience and to really understand that kids need instruction and discipline and they need time they need time to learn these things and to learn how to behave proper...

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Lesson 22

Final thoughts on patience

the most important situation in which patients is uh definitely required so those were some different situations but there are plenty of others I hope this episode was interesti...

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Lesson 23

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