This quote is one of my favorites. To be candid, I never really understood it because I had never seen it in a person. It’s so rare to be extreme on both sides of this equation.
Then I saw it in a person for the first (and I think only) time in my life, and it all made sense.
Interestingly, to have extreme patience means you have to be able to take withering criticism. And to have extreme decisiveness, you also have to be willing to take withering criticism. To be extreme on both ends, you almost have to missing a gene of caring what other people think.
But in so doing, you have the capacity to take paths and potentially produce outcomes that aren’t possible for others. Therein lies the basis of the advantage. Such a rare mentality.