[DbPhoenix]

RULE #3: If you've been folding a lot, for a long time in the game, and you're starting to think that maybe it's time you got in and played a few hands again -- that's not a good enough reason. Keep folding.

The level beyond this is having no desire to act inappropriately- to be so immersed in the moment and the process that time does not exist and thus impatience does not exist.

Great traders have rituals they enjoy for their own sake, a method and a habit that acts as its own reason for being. When you have this mindset, impatience goes away; whatever is in front of you becomes too engaging to worry about what you aren't doing or could be doing.

The amount of time a trader should be willing to wait for a good trade is infinite, because with the correct mindset the trader isn't actually “waiting” in the traditional sense; being and experiencing yes, waiting no. (darkhorse)