Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that time solves many problems. There is a
Speaker 1: reasonable chance that your current problems will be overtaken by
Speaker 1: events or will work themselves out. Not with everything, of course,
Speaker 1: but sometimes it is best just to be patient. So
Speaker 1: this episode was partly inspired by a random question I
Speaker 1: got from a listener who was wondering what I thought
Speaker 1: of a particular approach to potty training that she was
Speaker 1: considering using with her toddler. Now I had not heard
Speaker 1: of this particular approach, but I imagine some guru is
Speaker 1: now making their living off selling courses or videos about
Speaker 1: this method of getting kids to use the bathroom. I
Speaker 1: did not use any particular branded method with my five kids.
Speaker 1: They learned at different points and with different amounts of
Speaker 1: stopping and starting in the process, but they all learned
Speaker 1: time and encouragement turn out to work perfectly fine. So
Speaker 1: it goes with many things. Time solves all sorts of problems.
Speaker 1: A really sour person might be making your life difficult,
Speaker 1: and then at some point they are simply no longer
Speaker 1: in your life for whatever reason time solves the problem.
Speaker 1: A lot of minor injuries and illnesses simply clear up
Speaker 1: on their own. A kid who is unhappy about a
Speaker 1: camp learns to be happy or else. In a week
Speaker 1: or two. The camp is over. Life feels unsustainable during
Speaker 1: your work busy season, and then the busy season ends.
Speaker 1: A cantankerous client is creating miserable demands and then they
Speaker 1: get distracted by something else. No one now needs to
Speaker 1: worry about creating that document that they've decided they won't
Speaker 1: be using anyway. Sometimes when people realize how many problems
Speaker 1: time can solve, they deliberately delay taking action. A manager
Speaker 1: might wait to weigh in on a thread from a
Speaker 1: team because the odds that they work it out on
Speaker 1: their own are reasonable. Someone asks for something, but then
Speaker 1: because you don't respond in the next ten minutes, they
Speaker 1: go find it on their own. Hey, problem solved now.
Speaker 1: Obviously this isn't the case with everything. Sometimes things start
Speaker 1: moving in the wrong direction, then it might pay to intervene.
Speaker 1: Modern medicine can solve various problems that don't get better
Speaker 1: on their own, thank goodness. But if something generally is
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction, then time and patience might
Speaker 1: solve the problem completely. Wisdom is about recognizing this and,
Speaker 1: rather than doing something, deciding to just roll with it.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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