Hey everyone, welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday, you finally made it.

It's Dr. Maya Shankar here.

I'm a cognitive scientist and host of a slight change of plans, a podcast all about who

we are and who we become in the face of a big change.

Thanks so much for having me as your guest host this week.

We're often so hard on ourselves for what we view as our negative qualities.

Today we'll explore how to see the silver linings in our faults and learn to embrace those

aspects.

I've always hated the fact that I've been incredibly impatient person.

I've been this way since I was a little kid.

I usually want things to have happened yesterday and my whole life I've just been hoping

that I could potentially cultivate a more patient personality.

But then I realized that there's been a lot of upsides to being impatient.

I think I was having a conversation with my husband where I said, you know, when there's

a challenge that emerges, my instinct is I want to problem solve immediately and I think

I was probably being quite self-critical.

My husband Jimmy pointed out to me, hey, you know that your impatience can also be a really

good thing too, right, Maya?

And I was like, no, I don't think so.

But in having the conversation with him, I realized that, yeah, it is an asset.

I do think that in a lot of ways I have been able to accomplish more in my life as a result

of being impatient.

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