Patience is Power: The Strategic Advantage of Tenacity

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Um, they've defined themselves for decades on their tenacity, their resilience, their ability to outlast.

[00:00:05]Um, that's really their their main strong suit. That's how they get through life with sanctions being thrown at them and just persistently chipping away like a Chinese water torture where they just they they just wear down the world until the world just stops caring for a while and they keep chugging along with their little nuclear program and chugging along with funding terrorism and the Houthis and the Hezbollah.

[00:00:30]And um, they just bank on other people having less patience than they do.

[00:00:35]So, if you're a fast and quick fly-by-night real estate tycoon from New York City who likes who has a short attention span and likes quick wins, you're not necessarily you know, you don't have the strongest hand when you're coming to extremely patient and um, rather internecine bureaucratic uh, systems run by people who prize time, tenacity, resilience, and patience.

[00:01:00]So, we find ourselves in this uh, standoff which isn't really much of a standoff because one side essentially has all the time in the in the world and the other side needs it wrapped up quickly.