I think seeing patience as a virtue is seeing it from a totally incorrect perspective.
Patience is an integral part of the human condition.
We have lost it through life and the speeding up of it -and the tensions added into our lives is because of the loss of patience.
If we start to see patience as a human condition, and something to be reclaimed as our, it empowers us.
It is already ours.
We own it, but have lost it.
The best way to find patience....(imo)
DO a big project, made up of tiny details (building a wall?)
And you MUST complete it.
Enforced, gentle, active repetition, brings patience back home to you....