| Patience, whether about achieving goals or anything | | | | A less exceptional example of impatience can be |
| else, is not a popular virtue in the modern world. How | | | | found in the world of cosmetic surgery where people |
| valuable is patience today? | | | | are ready to suffer the surgeon's knife to lose fat |
| A young woman in the UK has just been jailed for 20 | | | | quickly. They are not prepared for the long haul of |
| years. She wanted to make three million pounds | | | | eating less and exercising more. |
| quickly by killing rich people. | | | | On the internet you are promised that you can learn |
| As part of her plan, she conducted a trial murder by | | | | how to write a book in fourteen days or even seven |
| knifing a kindly neighbour 14 times. I am surprised | | | | days. The question of whether such a book would |
| that she had enough patience to conduct a test | | | | be worth reading is not closely analysed. |
| murder before moving on to her main targets. | | | | |