Patience, well that’s tough. I believe I have patience, but what helps me have it? I’ll try and describe what I think helps me. I don’t know if I’ll articulate this well.
I know if I wait for the timing of whatever I am doing to be right then I increase my chances of success. It doesn’t matter what I am doing because I apply the principal from past successes when I waited for the timing to increase my odds.
How to know when the timings right? Analyze failures, learn from them.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
When I have an unexpected outcome I try and analyze why. The outcome may actually been good and something to repeat. Regardless it is something to learn from. Very Fulleresque sorry I live in a Geo Dome
So for me patience boils down to trying to achieve a success, monitoring for the right moment, then acting when I think the right moment has arrived.
I agree with CS it is an aquired skill