B1 – Intermediate
In today’s modern world, life has become a constant pursuit of distraction. Being more patient can do wonders to our mental health, career, and personal relationships. Patience makes us better people.
Let’s listen to the audio and read the transcript below about patience.
https://listenaminute.com/p/patience.html
Discussion Questions:
- Are you patient? Is it difficult for you to be as such? Explain your answer.
- How can you improve the quality of patience in yourself? What techniques can you think of?
- When was the last time you lost your patience?
- Who/what requires the most patience in your life?
- Do you think you’re getting more patient or impatient as you get older? Explain.
4 replies on “Patience”
I have always considered myself as a patient person. I’m the eldest of three siblings and they used to ask me for help to their doubts and studies because they often needed things to be repeated several times. Besides, I have been able to manage different tough situations along my life where patience has been the key to success in business.
However, I notice that my patience is worsening day by day. Sometimes, I am not capable of controlling my nerves and I say things to people which can hurt them. To avoid these disgusting situations, I try to prove different techniques. Firstly, before saying anything I take two deep breaths. In addition, I usually go to the gym so that I can release all my nerves and adrenalin. Since then, my life has improved drastically.
The last time I lost my patience was a week ago when I had to speak to my aunt about a subject. She is an old person living a parallel life in her mind. It is very difficult to handle any issue with her since she is obsessed with the same matter again and again.
People who require more patience in my life are my family, mainly my parents and uncles. They are old people and more intransigent with everything.
Unfortunately, I realize that I’m getting more impatient as I get older. But I think that it is a general feeling to everyone. From my point of view, the main reason is that we are assuming more responsibilities and more problems, we sleep less as the time goes by.
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1.- Yes. I think I’m patient in the majority of cases. But when I lost the patience, I can get angry and discuss with this person.
2.- I try to understand what happen at this moment, and see if I can do something to help with this thing that is getting so long time. If not, I stay and wait.
3.- Maybe 1 week ago, with my 8 year old daughter.
4.- My daughter 😉
5.- I think the same or more patience. I consider myself a patient person.
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