Patience

It doesn't take much to look around and notice that a glaring difference between the amount of patience that our parents generation had, and the amount of patience the majority of the younger generation has right now.  It is quite astonishing how low the level is, especially when patience can be a very important trait for a lot of jobs.  Even looking outside of jobs, it is very evident.  One of my longtime high school buddies separated his shoulder twice over the previous summer, and wanted to skip rehab and physical therapy and just take HGH to recover.  Luckily for him, his doctor told him that a natural recovery would be best as there would  no long term side effects.  The point remains though, that our generation is losing patience quickly and is becoming more and more apt to take the quick short term solution instead of the safer one.  I think this can also be attributed to the current recession, as up and coming college graduates tried to take out loans to buy a big house by banking on money they thought they would make.  It is this lack of patience that could end up making an awful impact on the future of the current youthful generation.