Your eyes need twenty minutes in the dark before the faint stars show up. Most people check their phone at minute two.

Some rewards exist only on the far side of waiting. Your eyes need about twenty minutes to open up, and there is no partial version: at minute two you see nothing, conclude there is nothing to see, and go back to the screen, which resets the clock. The failure is not patience, it is quitting just before the part that was worth it.

Plenty of things have that shape, including hard reading and the first mile of a run. Pick one this week and decide in advance how long you will stay before judging it. Then stay the whole time, even when minute two says it is not working.