patience is a virtue as the old saying
goes
and there are some people who can
demonstrate patience to an
almost god-like level great works of art
multinational business world-beating
athletic achievements
all of these require patience because
feats like these can take
many years to achieve and it's not
always easy to know if you're succeeding
at any given moment
some people however are patient for the
wrong reasons and i'll be taking a look
at them too
so join me as i take a tour of some of
the most patient people the world has to
offer
number 10 robert shoesmith
back in august 2011 british garbage
collector and marketing wiz
robert shoesmith started waiting for the
iphone 4s to come out
before it had even been announced this
involved camping outside the apple store
in london's covent garden during the
highly changeable british summer time
for over two months
thanks to his tech inspired patients mr
shoesmith managed to achieve a lot of
corporate sponsorship from companies
like cadbury's
skype mountain dew domino's pizza
innocent kleenex helly hansen
weight watchers and gillette the phone
was available to buy on the 14th of
october 2011
but despite all of robert's best efforts
he wasn't actually the first to get his
hands on the phone
and was beaten by amy yang from new
zealand this just goes to show that
patience
doesn't always pay off especially if
you're waiting for apple tech
mr smith did however witness a smash and
grab raid on the apple store on october
10th
so at least he got some excitement out
of the long wait shoesmith does however
have a more successful
and more patient predecessor named
number 9.
greg packer greg is what's known as a
professional line sitter
and he is universally recognized as the
first man on earth to buy the first
iphone
which he achieved after having camped
outside the fifth avenue apple store for
four days
greg was also the first member of the
public to shake george bush junior's
hand when he was first inaugurated
and is known as one of the most quoted
people in american media
so much so that reporters have been
advised not to take quotes from him
other names that have been attributed to
the former highway maintenance worker
are
man on the street and the eye loser stay
patient greg
number eight tendai monks have you ever
thought about doing a marathon
how about one marathon per day for a
hundred days
how about one marathon per day for a
hundred days each year
for seven years and for the last two
years you have to do two marathons per
day
if you think that sounds impossible you
need to check out the tendai monks and
their insane caihogio practice
cayogio means circling the mountain and
it's a grueling
seven year long journey conducted for
100 to 200 days a year by tendai monks
who wish to achieve the title of
dayajari or
living saint only 48 marathon monks have
completed the challenge since 1885
and the stakes are pretty high after the
first 100 days
if you don't manage to complete the
required 30 to 60 kilometers per day
you're expected to kill yourself and all
monks participating in the challenge
must carry a knife
and a rope for this purpose there's also
a trial in the fifth year of the
practice called dory where you must
chant 100
000 mantras for nine days without food
water
or sleep if this practice isn't an
incredible example of patience
persistence and training
and i don't know what is number seven
william reed still this man is an
american artist and mariner who claims
to have completed the longest continuous
sea voyage without resupply or stepping
on land
which was 1 152 days long
reedstow also broke the record for long
a solo sea voyage without resupply on
day 964.
after his wife who had joined him for
the first 306 days
had to leave the boat to give birth
personally i can't imagine spending one
month on a boat
let alone almost three years so
reedstow's resilient patience seems very
impressive to me
sadly none of reedstow's achievements
have been officially recognized by the
world's sailing speed record council
because they're unable to recognize
human condition categories because they
can be too expansive
reedstow will be remembered by endurance
sailors around the world for his
accolades
but what would you expect from someone
who appears to be more
fish than man number six david blaine
being patient when you're alone is one
thing but having patience when you're
suspended 30 feet in the air in a plexi
glass box scrutinized by the general
public
is a whole different ballgame back in
2003 magician and illusionist david
blaine showed incredible patience and
determination when he performed this
christ-like feat of endurance
living in a transparent hanging box
without food for 44 days
i mean it's not like he was in the
desert but it's impressive nonetheless
during the stunt blaine lost 60 pounds
and had symptoms of starvation
depleted bone and organ mass heart
palpitations
breathing problems and loss of skin
pigmentation
critics have said that it's possible
blaine's four and a half liter allowance
of water per day was laced with glucose
and sodium supplements
though no solid food for 44 days is
still pretty astonishing
during the stunt blaine was harassed by
the british public who pelted him with
eggs
pain-filled balloons and even golf balls
one prankster even flew a hamburger
attached to a remote control helicopter
up to the box to taunt the starving
artist
whatever you think of this stunt
blaine's patience was pushed to the
absolute limit and in the end he
succeeded
number five colin angus
in july 2004 colin angus became the
first man
ever to complete a self-propelled
circumnavigation of the world
he crossed two oceans three continents
and 13 countries
traveling either by foot canoe rowboat
or bicycle
his journey was beset with problems like
when his expedition partner tim harvey
left him in siberia
or when he had to be rescued from a high
seas storm by a russian research vessel
angus traveled around 43 000 kilometers
or roughly 26
700 miles to achieve this feat which
took
almost two years to complete the journey
started by bike in vancouver and took
colin through alaska
across the bering sea along the length
of siberia
and to europe from moscow to portugal
then across the atlantic to costa rica
after which they cycled the 8 300
kilometers back to vancouver
a trip like this requires unbelievable
patience and determination
as well as a high level of physical
fitness which is why i think colin
deserves the title of one of the most
patient people in the world
number 4. michelangelo between 1508 and
1512
the florentine artist michelangelo
painted the breathtaking and world
famous ceiling of the sistine chapel
the complex and colorful fresco is
celebrated for its realistic figures
vast size and innovative process but it
also required
a great deal of patience to complete
every day for
four years michelangelo would paint the
ceiling atop a wood platform that he
built on a bracket attached to the side
of the building's interior
the work was carried out in extremely
uncomfortable conditions because he had
to work with his head tilted upwards for
long periods the results of his patience
and skill was a work of art that has
lasted for more than
500 years and is appreciated by
thousands of visitors
every single day another particularly
patient artist was august rhoden
who spent 37 years creating his
monumental sculpture piece
the gates of hell which depicts a scene
from the inferno
the first section of dante's divine
comedy the intimidating work stands at
six meters high is four meters wide and
one meter deep and contains 180
individual figurines number three
injured brits in the uk in 2018
sylvia marsh a 79 year old woman fell
and broke her hip on the pavestones in
her backyard despite
frequent calls from her family to the
emergency services
an ambulance did not arrive to help her
for three and a half
hours by that time the woman was
freezing and shaking and her arm had
gone numb
the overstretched ambulance service in
the uk also left four people waiting for
more than
50 hours and on one call the welsh
ambulance service took over 62 hours to
respond
many of these are extreme cases but the
average time it takes in the uk for an
ambulance to respond is
over 120 minutes which wouldn't be ideal
if you had a gunshot wound
still with ambulance rides in the u.s
costing anywhere between 400 and 2 700
at least in the uk it pays to be a
little more patient number two
man with an arrow in his chest in
february of 2015
a picture surfaced on reddit of a man
waiting patiently for medical attention
with an arrow sticking out of his chest
he appears to be smiling and his son is
sitting next to him
holding the bow apparently guilty the
image is amazing
and it's truly an emblem of exactly what
it means to be patient
why does the kid have a bow in the
hospital though man why does he appear
to have only three fingers on his right
hand
many questions were raised as a result
of this photograph so reddit user riot
squad 9000 made an
appeal to the original poster for answer
fortunately the original poster tooty
boce did eventually reply and revealed
that yes it's a fake
and he took the picture on the set of a
commercial for an insurance company
nevertheless it's a funny idea and i
think we can all take a little
inspiration from this image of
saint-like patience
as an honorable mention let's take a
look at one of the most patient
animals in the world this man's dog in a
display of faithfulness
loyalty and unerring patience this man's
trusty hound appears more than happy to
keep the time bendingly slow pace set by
his elderly owner
the dog doesn't tug or bark instead
taking its time and sticking close to
its owner
for those who truly believe that dogs
are man's best friend the footage of
this patient pooch is
more than enough proof of that and it
might also
bring a tear to the eye anyway let's get
back to humans and take a look at
possibly the most astonishing act of
patience
of all time number one scott
weaver if you've ever made a sculpture
out of toothpicks you'll know that it's
a painstaking task that takes a great
deal of concentration
a steady hand and most of all patience
well patience is something scott weaver
has in buckets
scott's day job is a grocery store clerk
but when he takes his apron off at the
end of the day
he becomes one of the world's greatest
toothpick sculptors
scott has made all kinds of different
large-scale sculptures out of toothpicks
but perhaps his most inspiring work
is a 9 foot tall replica of san
francisco called rolling through the bay
it took scott 35 years and more than a
hundred thousand toothpicks to create
this masterpiece that meticulously
represents famous landmarks and
destinations from the city by the bay
this video demonstrates the kinetic
aspect of the sculpture
which involves five different pathways
along which balls can roll through the
city
traveling past famous landmarks like the
transamerica pyramid
and the rice-a-roni cable car scott
admits that there are in fact a few
toothpick sculptures that are larger
than his
but none of them have the kinetic
qualities that rolling through the bay
does
scott's patience has enabled him to
build some incredible pieces of work
and he stands as a shining example of
someone who has brought joy to their
life through working on something little
by little
every day even this questionable hat
anyone else really want to see this
thing satellite sorry scott
but i think it would be a sight to
behold so do you think you have more
patience than any of these people
and what was the most patient thing
you've ever done let me know in the
comment section below
as always thanks for watching and see
you next time
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