Your Type
Waiting is an 'unexpected thinking space' for you — you start thinking about many things, not randomly, but working through problems you were too busy to think about. Sometimes a solution to something, sometimes a relationship, sometimes a question that's confused you for a long time. Your brain is actually most efficient during waits — fewer distractions. The problem is that this sometimes means 'the wait ends but the thinking hasn't' — the other person thinks you were zoning out, but you were contemplating life's big questions.
💡 Did you know?
Flow research (Csikszentmihalyi) found that 'low-stimulus environments' (like waiting) can actually induce a 'micro-flow state' in some people — when external stimulation drops, people who can self-supply thinking content enter a quiet but highly focused thinking mode that's actually more efficient than in high-stimulus environments.
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