A repeated inconvenience deserves a practical change, not a larger store of patience.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Endurance is often the most expensive solution available. If the same small thing goes wrong every week, the door that sticks, the report that always arrives late, the route that never works, then bearing it well means paying the cost indefinitely while nothing improves. Patience is a fine response to what cannot be changed and a poor response to what can.

Pick the irritation you have absorbed the longest and treat it as a problem rather than a character test. Ask what would have to change for it to stop happening, then do the small unglamorous thing, whether that is a screwdriver, a conversation or a different arrangement.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What small annoyance have you endured instead of simply fixing?

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