Hey friends it's Mr. Jim and welcome back to Kid Short stories.

Last time we saw that Professor Sticky Fingers has started stealing all of our spy gear and it's up to Hunter and Reed to grow the magical seed of a bubbleberry bush.

Are they going to be able to choose to be patient and follow the direction so that it grows in time?

I don't know. Well, we can take this. This is one of the hardest challenges of my entire life," said Reed.

Hunter glanced down and said, Reed, we've been watering this plant for like only four hours so far.

Why are you being so dramatic?

Because this is the hardest challenge I've ever had in my entire life.

I'm not very good at being patient.

Reed, I guess was not very good at being patient.

Do you think you know how to be patient?

I bet you do.

You see being patient means that you value something that's on the other side of being patient.

So imagine if I said, hey, I'm going to ask you to sit in this chair for five

minutes. Do you think that five minutes is going to seem like a long time? Or how about ten minutes? How about if you had to sit in a chair for 10 minutes?

That would seem pretty hard, right? I'd be hard to be patient. Well what if, on the other side of that 10 minutes,

you got a cookie?

Ooh, I bet you'd be up for that challenge.

Well, see, you can choose to be patient, and sometimes it's something that you have to choose to do, and not, there's not always a cookie at the other side.

Well, as spies, Hunter and Reed, they had been to a lot of trainings about how to choose to be patient, but I guess it's harder to act it out in real life.

And Reed was really struggling.

I don't think I can do this.

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