Is Deciding to Act With Patience and Experiencing Emotional Patience Always Closely Linked?
We distinguish between making a sincere decision about what we are to do in a situation (e.g., making a decision to act in patience) and actually living out the felt experience of acting with patience regardless of the consequences.
In the box below, answer the following questions:
- How are emotional and decisional patience different?
- How are they the same?
- Would you expect emotional and decisional patience to occur at the same or different times? If different times, how far apart?