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How Impatience Prevents Learning from Elders

My elderly father takes forever to tell stories with all the background context but when I try to hurry him along I miss the wisdom hidden in what seems like unnecessary details.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your desire for efficiency is causing you to dismiss the very richness that contains the deepest teachings.

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