A couple of my teacher friends posted an article that I found thought provoking and intriguing.  It stresses the importance of teaching students how to be patience and how to understand the payoff that putting in extended time of work can give.

An extreme example of this is a research paper on a work of art where students are required to first spend three hours observing the work!!! That definitely sounds like an exercise in patience. But the idea is that by spending time with something you can actually begin to understand its nuances instead of just memorizing a bunch of facts for a test.