When it comes to the question of whether should people spend some time to think before they take action, different people hold various opinions. Some people says that opportunities would go quickly if they do not grasp them, thus, they would like to take action as soon as possible. On the contrary, others believe patience is often a good straegy, they usually consoder all aspects of the situation, and the consequences of their decision. Personally speaking, I prefer the later choice, my reasons are as follows.
To begin with, people can make relatively less mistakes if they are petient before they take action. I will speak from my own experience. I am a university student majoring in mechanical engineering. In my daily life, I always take sufficient time to think about what I will do before I take action. For example, three months ago, I decided to take GRE, so I began to prepare for it. Before I took any action, I made a detail plan according to my ability and time I can spend on this test. I spent amost one week on making this plan, because I had to take classes about my major subjects and I read lots of other people' articles about how to prepare this test. Then I did everything based on my plan, I really got a high score on it. On the contrary, one of my classmate who also took this text, but he said it was a waste of time to make plan, he just did some practices after he signed up for the test. The result was not surprising, he failed on this test. According to this test, I realized that patience contribute greatly to one's sucess. Thanks to patience, I can get I high score on the GRE. If I took action as my classmate did, I would make mistakes as him.
Moreover, people really need patience to do some specific works. Patience means that one needs to spend sufficient time on the work they do, have the confidence do to it well, and to continue on whenever they confront with setbacks or they may feel depressed when they fail. As we all know, education is a kind of work which needs people be patient with. It lasts for so long a time, from primary school,middle school, then fianlly into university, if one has no patience, s/he can hardly finish the learning process. Thus, patience is helpful for people on these specfic works.
Finally, patience is one factor to judge whether one person is grow-up or not. Adults are more tactful than young people, they are usually more patient before they do something. Years of experiences give them the wisdom to consider thoroughly before they make any decisions. In contrast, people who always take action immediately are thought to be not wisdom engough. For instance, a recent survey shows that, adults spend nearly more time before they take action. While, youngests usually do not consider patience as a good strategy, they often care-free and optimistic about what they do. But, according to the result of this survey, adults are more sucessuful than youngests in performing the tasks designed in the survey. So, we can see from this survey that, adults and youngests behave differently when they perform some tasks. Adults are more mature than youngests.
Of course, the opportunity will escape if you do not seize it. However, one thing that everyone needs to pay attention to is that, before you grasp it, you need to ensure you can succeed. Otherwise, the damage it brings to you would far outweith the advantage you get from it. Therefore, based on what I have been discussed above, we can safely drwa the conclusion that people need patience as a kind of good strategy.