Patience is cultivated as a good deed regardless of one’s circumstances

Evidence

The marshmallow test, in other words, was not measuring character. It was measuring prefrontal development. The children who waited were not more virtuous. They were more prefrontally mature. Their inhibitory-control hardware was further along. — , The Rod and the Child, 5900 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Woman’s resignation to suffering produces the patience society admires as feminine virtue. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1744; Urging patience on others for injustice one does not endure is immoral — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 743; Patience counts as a virtue only when practiced independent of circumstance (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Delay of gratification reflects prefrontal maturity, not moral character #complicates (0.78) — , The Rod and the Child, 5900