Patience in productivity books is a timer. In the Jataka Tales, it is a muscle.
Pick up any bestselling productivity title and patience shows up as a tactic: delay gratification for 15 minutes, wait before sending the angry email, hold off on the purchase for 48 hours. The advice is not wrong. It is just small. Patience as a timed pause is patience as a technique, something you use until the situation resolves, then put down.
