This is probably a question that gets asked a lot, but does anyone have any advice for learning patience?

I find when I'm at a table full of silent strangers and no one is chatting or being friendly, I end up getting bored waiting for hands. I want to play a tight-ish game, but after a while I get the best hand I've seen in a while and end up over playing a medium hand, even though as SOON as the hand is over, I know I screwed up. (If I'm being honest, half the time I know I'm making a bad decision but the GAMBOOL takes over)

Is this a trait that can be trained, or is the desire to gambool something innate that I can't get rid of?

My most profitable games (and frankly my best play) seems to occur when I'm at a raucous table full of chatty people, which distracts me from how few hands I might be playing.

Why train it? You know you're in a crap game, change which one you play in

play at least a million hands online, after which you become mostly indifferent to whatever is happening at the live poker table, meaning you wont be excited to play a hand. This is the most profitable way, though it takes all the fun out of the game. Unfortunately, as long as playing poker is fun, you will be looking to play as many hands as possible.

Unfortunately maximizing profit and fun don't mix in live poker. I mean practicing patience is something you can do at home by basically sitting at the table doing absolutely nothing staring at a clock.

fwiw I try to come up with engineering solutions for difficult problems sometimes at the table to kill time.

change your attitude. simply believe its fun to not play hands during certain situations.

tell yourself this often enough and have other people tell you all the time that its fun to fold 72o utg 100% of the time when 100bb deep with 8 players left to act behind you and you will start to believe its fun to do such a thing.

you just simply believe its boring. change that believe with reps.

Posts are hitting on all cylinders today!!

Discipline can be learned/practiced, yes.
Focusing on your poker goals can be learned/practiced.

Adapting to game/table dynamic is a 'must' if you are a poker reg.
Knowing when to table change/leave early is easy .. just not so easy when you attach the social aspects of it (may not be an issue for you).

It's hard to take advantage of a situation when there's no 'situation' happening, eh? Don't create/force your own situations when everyone else is on point too ... that's the worst time to 'try' things. GL

I want patience.

Right now.

Online to be patient and focused I need to play at least 8-10 regular tables or 3-4 zoom ones, otherwise I might start to overplay and enter spew mode. Kinda risky if aren't confident at the level you're playing, but what can you do.
Live for some reasons I can fold everything for 2 hours straight without any problem, I don't know why, it just feels more stimulating than clicking buttons in front of a pc I guess.