Patience preserves options urgency would accidentally destroy.

Urgency narrows. Under pressure to resolve something, you take the option in front of you and quietly close several others that were still live. Patience is often just the practice of not spending options you did not have to spend yet.

When you feel pushed to decide, ask what doors this closes and whether any of them matter. If they do, look for a smaller move that keeps them open. Preserving optionality has real value even when you never use it.