Ask your grandpa to take you fishing. You’ll learn more about waiting in one morning than in a semester of advice.

Some things cannot be explained to you, only sat through. A morning where nothing happens for long stretches teaches your body what waiting feels like, which no amount of being told about patience will do. The company of somebody comfortable in that silence is most of the lesson.

Ask an older person in your family to take you along to something slow this week. Fishing, gardening, a long drive, a repair job in the garage. Do not fill it with questions. Most of what you came for arrives in the gaps.