The drying shelf teaches patience without giving a speech about it.

Some lessons are built into materials rather than delivered by people. A shelf of drying pots will not be hurried, and anyone working with them learns to wait because the alternative is a ruined week, not because anyone lectured them. Patience taught this way tends to stick, since it arrives as a fact about the world rather than a virtue you are supposed to have.

Look for the parts of your own work that impose a wait, and stop treating them as obstacles. Use the gap for something else rather than standing over it. Processes that refuse to be rushed are worth keeping close.