When something jams, your instinct is not to force it — it is to stay still until the situation shows you a different angle. It looks passive from outside. It is not. It is a method, and it works often enough that you trust it.
The risk is obvious and you already know it: waiting and avoiding look identical from the inside. Some things you have called patience were closer to putting off the decision.
The Hanged Man is suspended by choice and the world reads differently from there. The card is about willing suspension, not being stuck. The difference is whether you could come down if you decided to.