Dealing with others at work as your future self

When you're dealing with other at work, remember that other people are at different life stages than you currently are....  like you yourself used to be at a different life stage.  

And you yourself will look at your current self (and your attitude towards the co-worker) as short tempered, naive, unwise, etc*. You and your work-mate are just two people in story that continues to change.   The story in this book will, in the future, seem quaint, dated, slightly irrelevant to the new contingencies and alarms.

So, it helps to be patient when dealing with others... and to remember that we, too, the one trying to be wise and patient, is also changing.  It might be your future self has a wiser way of working with the co-worker... would give you some good advice.

(*but also (and this is a different story) healthy, strong, vibrant, filled with ideas)