“Be patient, be patient - patience polishes you, steels your spirit - so do be patient, be patient...” Vasily Stus.

Patience is the virtue of slavesFriedrich Nietzsche.

The longer you freeze in your stamina, resilience and indestructibility, the more likely it is that at this time someone will deftly pick out your pockets.

Situational resilience mobilizes additional resources of the individual and group, motivates and increases self-esteem. But a resource is just a resource because it has its own limits of depletion and dynamics of replenishment.

Usually our energy consumption in a state of stress is much higher than recovery. If political slogans at the onset of mass stress coincide with the volcanic energy of group self-defense, they contribute to survival. If this volcano no longer spews lava and stones from the sky, and most often smoke, then effective slogans turn into empty spells. Primitive information policy contributes to emotional burnout.

Well, let's talk about the anatomy of all this patience.

A good place to start is with the concept of “resilience.”. Then smoothly, through Epictetus, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, jump to the mystical chosenness of the Ukrainian people. Conclude with praise for some practical initiatives. Points (God forgive me) of indestructibility or other SMM victories on brand fronts.

Fortunately, no one in their right mind will read this now.. For this purpose - round tables, seminars, symposiums, panels and buffets. There are good people convincing even better people of the obvious..

What it gives us is a phenomenon ranging from calf patience to samurai integrity? Let's look from a practical point of view. Our ability to endure troubles is acquired, inherited, or the stars just aligned.? And when this patience breaks, what then? Or you can cut down the strength somewhere and put it in reserve, since it’s already running out?

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Neuroplasticity is resistant to bending, this seems to be useful. And if you float, then what happens to this neuroplastic

We have changed more than once in history so as not to die out. The natural tenacity and stubbornness inherent in the Ukrainian ethnic group, through periods of Russian serfdom and the Polish lordship, culminating in the pogrom of the Sich and the corruption of the Cossack elders (yes, not all, I know) was melted into exceptional patience.

I would say not patience, but “patience”, masochistic attentiveness to any misfortune with its further glorification and sacralization (“God endured and told us to”).

What are the neurobiological mechanisms of patience There is a thin three-millimeter strip of gray matter in the head, the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the center of self-control, which generally houses all our cultural and civilizational claims. Responsible for planning, impulse inhibition, decision making. The better developed the PFC, the higher the ability to tolerate. For example, the transition from such an extreme form of survival as cannibalism to the creation of the institution of slavery was accompanied by the emergence of social norms and progressive control of appetite.

The cortex slows down its evolutionary older sister - the limbic system, full of passions. It’s like being in a bar with a colleague who still wants to use neurotransmitters, but he’s already had enough. And they tell him rationally from the right hemisphere of the brain: “You hear, let’s better continue tomorrow”.

Our story is somewhat less cheerful, since the stress dragged on indefinitely. The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis is activated. This occurs when a person encounters an obstacle to achieving a goal, desire, or need.. Emotional reaction to trouble. If trouble lasts for a long time, the system can become deregulated, which leads to emotional burnout.

Patience is not innate, it is a skill. Formed and inherited not through genes, but through experience, upbringing, social models. It depends on the brain's ability to adapt. This ability is great, but not limitless.. It's like copper or aluminum wire - it bends easily. But if you bend it very often, then at the point of bending (for us these are neural connections) the wire overheats and breaks..

How these skills were formed among us and our ancestors? The vast majority of our citizens (demography helps) studied Ukrainian literature at school. That is, what was selected and provided for the socialist education of the working people.

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Let's look at our classics from this angle.

Gogol’s “be patient, Cossack, and you will be an otaman” - the formula of patience as a necessary stage of career growth. For Lesya Ukrainka (especially in the drama “On the Field of Blood”), patience is an internal conflict between faith and despair. Well, so-so choice, as for our time. In Franco, patience borders on learned helplessness, and ethical tension borders on frustration.. This is not only “Moses” or “The Death of Cain”, but also lesser-known works (“On the Days”, “Good Earnings”). Well, in “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka” by Gogol - “We won’t get up, mom! we won't get up! we will die and not rise! - the Cossacks shouted"

Yes, taken out of context, they have different things. But they were allowed to teach precisely because of the cult of suffering, which was confirmed by their edited biographies.

Karl Leonhard once wrote the work “Accented Personalities”, where he analyzed human psychotypes using the example of literary heroes. Ukrainian new and Soviet literature was thoroughly socialist. Socialism called for enduring the temporary difficulties of building communism and showed literary examples. Those who were impatient were packed into the Gulag, and those whose patience ran out somehow radically were physically destroyed.

After the short euphoria of the early 90s, all this hushed socialism was restored in full again and continued its path of degradation under the national flag. Thirty years of enduring temporary difficulties in building a bright Ukrainian future. It was Gogol who could spit on cards and make the sign of the cross - and the evil spirits would disappear. And here, don’t even spit, don’t even do anything - it’s all God’s dew for them.

Suppose there are three phases of psychological resistance: patience, invincibility and struggle. Let's see where we are now and what's happening to us.

There is never such a phenomenon when all the people march in orderly rows in any one direction.. This is a propaganda option of all times and peoples. There are quantitatively significant values, but not absolute ones. There is a highly motivated minority, which, according to Pareto’s law, can influence the behavior of the majority.

The above phases are not a “nipple system”. The movement can be sequential, reverse, sequential again, with freezes, etc.. These three phases interact with each other as a three-part model of the brain: the spinal system, the limbic system and the neocortex. The later the system is formed, the more reliable and stupid it is at the same time.

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Therefore, in a state of acute stress reaction, first our rational thinking sags, and then our emotional sphere, and we are left with instinctive behavior, which later becomes uncomfortable..

Patience, which was an important component at the beginning of our survival, today is a retro model of behavior, where Western peacekeepers, led by the famous “piss”, lure us with their deep concern and sympathy.. The deeply respected master shows us all the benefits and advantages of serfdom, apparently based on his own experience of segregation.

Indestructibility is most often about withstanding prolonged pressure, like a diamond. But, despite its exceptional hardness, diamond under the influence of a strong blow easily splits along planes parallel to the faces of a regular octahedron, the four directions of cleavage.

With a human community solidified in indestructibility, the same strong social stratification can occur (and may already be happening). This is not a collapse, but a transition to a new quality that not everyone will like.

Fighting is the most eventful, kinetic phase. Its difference from asceticism is that feat is always a payment for someone’s mistake, the price of which is often life.

That is, struggle is a process of successful self-organization.

When its individual components can be modernized in case of changing circumstances, and the process does not suffer from this. What is important is that, unlike patience, struggle restores our energy faster, although, at first glance, it is more costly than patience.

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Therefore, I will quote (taking it from the other side of the context) the already mentioned classic:.

“Why can’t you hide the blood,.

Let's burn it with fire!

Only to fight means to live....

Vivere memento!

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