For me the easiest attribute is patience. There is nothing in this world I love better than to see a tutee "get it"! To me its like watching children take the first steps. I have been known to cry with joy when a tutee gets a particularly hard concept down. (Well maybe not cry, but I have been teary eyed for sure!)
The hardest attribute in tutoring can be being prepared. When tutees want to understand a concept they ask questions that a tutor might not always be ready to answer. I have been asked questions with no way to be able to supply the answer. While no one has all the answers, teachers have more knowledge and a deeper understanding of the subject they teach that tutors might not have.
I can relate because with my first tutee I had, I was overjoyed when after our first session she had came back and was able to show me how to do things we went over the day before!
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