“all patience or impatience is ultimately patience or impatience with someone.” This fact helps to explain how impatience is ultimately rooted in egocentrism. Patience is difficult because it “concerns what philosophers call the ‘egocentric predicament,’ which is the natural human condition of being immediately aware only of one’s own thoughts and feelings.” He further explains: “I know, however, only my own thoughts and am intimately aware of only my own needs, which naturally incline me to put myself first. The result is frustration that I’m not first, and this strongly tempts me to be
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