The Word of 2021 was "Impatience"
We can’t escape the world but we can re-learn Patience and Self-Discipline.
The Virtue We Have Given Up On and Must Embrace in This Decade
Skinner Boxes are the avatars of immediate gratification and unearned treats.
...that when you spend time helping the truly broken—the ones who require more patience than seems reasonable—you walk away with two revelations: how much of yourself still works, and how vital the fragile thread of kindness is that holds people together.