TITLE: How to develop patience in mathematics?
QUESTION [36 upvotes]: How  to develop the patience in mathematics?
When  you read the books like Rudin, Conway, etc., it takes a lot of time for one problem; sometimes $10$ hours each.
I usually  devote one  problem for $30$ minutes. If I can't solve the problem within $30$ minutes, then I post the problem on this site for a solution.
Actually, I have no patience and can't wait for long hours for thinking about the problem.
How  can I improve myself and develop the patience?

REPLY [18 votes]: Always  remember the Alexander_Grothendieck quotes "Mathematics is not a competition sport.
Terence Tao statement taken from  https://terrytao.wordpress.com/

The objective in mathematics is not to obtain the highest ranking, the highest “score”, or the highest number of prizes and awards; instead, it is to increase understanding of mathematics (both for yourself, and for your colleagues and students), and to contribute to its development and applications. For these tasks, mathematics needs all the good people it can get.

Michael_Atiyah statement taken
from Advice to a YoungMathematician

''Be patient and persistent. When thinking about a
problem, perhaps the most useful device you can
employ is to bear the problem in mind all the time: it
worked for Newton, and it has worked for many a mortal as well. Give yourself time, especially when attacking
major problems; promise yourself that you will spend
a certain amount of time on a big problem without
expecting much, and after that take stock and decide
what to do next. Give your approach a chance to work,
but do not be so wrapped up in it that you miss other
ways of attacking the problem. Be mentally agile: as
Paul Erd˝os put it, keep your brain open''
You  have to be practice patience, because by practice  everything can be acheived .Practice make a man perfect

Abel prize winner lenart carleson statement taken from his interview

If you want to solve problems, as in my case, the most
important property is to be very, very stubborn.Stubbornness
is important; you don’t want to give up. But as I
said before, you have to know when to give up
also. If you want to succeed you have to be very
persistent. And I think it’s a drive not to be beaten
by stupid problems.