The other day, I was waiting in line to board a bus in London when a scuffle broke out. A woman was trying to force her way to the front, and two people were pushing back. In Britain, queue-jumping is a crime on a par with farting in an elevator. Even so, when someone told the woman to wait her turn like the rest of us, she shot back, “Patience is for losers.” The phrase stuck with me not only because it was jarringly rude; it also seemed to catch the spirit of the age. You can imagine it pinned to the wall at a tech startup. Or falling from the lips of a productivity guru. But is it actually true? In this roadrunner world, is patience a one-way ticket to Planet Loser? Thankfully, the answer is a resounding “No.” We all know that patient people are nicer to be around than …