Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To properly adapt to the changing situation, we must adopt the pace of nature. We must be patient and wait for change to happen. It may take a while for this change to occur, but when that moment comes it will be worth it. For example, in the summertime, if you want to cool off, you don’t run in a pool immediately after getting out of bed.

Instead, you lay in the sun and wait. When the weather changes in winter, you stay at home and make sure your home is warm enough before going out. This is what Nelson Mandela was trying to say in his quote about patience.

In both situations, you have reached a point when it is too late to do something about the weather or your house becoming too cold. If you had been patient from the start then maybe a solution would have been found that avoided this problem altogether.

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  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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