I have seen the word many times, and people around me often refer to it as well. Now the word is used to describe doing a thing with a long-term plan and the participants aren’t hurried to achieve many goals. They do the thing step by step. In other words, they don’t eager for quick success and instant benefits. Sometimes this is pretty difficult to forgo to chase short-term benefits or gains. Short-term things are easy to do, such as swiping short videos, but they always make small effect, which is usually ignored or forgot, unless we can connect each one in them. So doing short-term thing is almost up to our current state. When our state changes, the behavior follows it. In addition, the state changes frequently. Thereby we always do normal things that can satisfy our short-term demand, like physiological need and stimulus. That makes us seem primitive, I think. Just because we can’t control ourselves. There is no difference with animals(I don’t mean discriminating animals).