A patient person sees opportunities urgency walks straight past.

Urgency narrows attention to whatever is immediately pressing, which means it walks past opportunities that are quiet, slow, or not yet obviously valuable. Patience widens the field simply by leaving you enough attention to notice. This is less about virtue than about bandwidth. A hurried mind sees only the emergency.

Build some slack into your week so that you are not always operating at full urgency. Then notice what you begin to see that you were missing. The best opportunities rarely arrive labelled or on schedule.