Monday, January 13, 2014

How Patience and Persistence Lead to Success




By Beth Kuhel

We live in a world that's driven by instant gratification. We share even the most intimate information via email, instant messaging, Snapchat and texting to get a quick message out. The declining profits in printed media over recent years shines light on the fact that as a society we prefer to garner our information from the Web, which we can access 24/7 rather than from printed media, which comes once per day (and in some locations, only a few times per week).

Our televisions host literally hundreds of stations and programs to choose from so we don't need to wait for our entertainment. We can "like" an article or a YouTube video and create fame for its publisher overnight. Revolutions can come about almost spontaneously from posts on Twitter. We have instant hot, microwave-prepared gourmet meals of every cuisine type to speed up our food preparation make it harder to accept having to make a home-cooked meal from scratch.

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