In many situations, patience is a secret weapon.

The secret to Apple's deep product quality is patience.

If you bake a cake for 60% of the time the box says, you won't get a cake that 60% of people want to eat, you'll get a cake that no one will want to eat!

Things that grow based on intrinsic motivation are typically significantly stronger and more resilient.

But you can't force a seedling to grow. The best you can do is nurture it.

It can be hard to do in practice; the benefit of patience is indirect and hard to quantify while the benefit of speed is obvious.