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The space where most of life secretly happens while you check your phone.
means To stay where you are or delay doing something until a particular time, event, or person arrives.
from From Old North French 'waitier' (to watch, guard), which traces back to a Germanic root meaning 'to be watchful' — a cousin of 'wake' and 'watch.' The earliest sense was about keeping vigilant guard; the modern flavor of patiently passing time grew from that original act of standing alert and ready, eyes open for whatever was coming.
- brain trick
- Anticipation activates dopamine more than the reward itself
- marshmallow test
- Kids who waited predicted later life success
- average lifetime
- Humans spend years queued in lines
- physics quirk
- Light from distant stars makes you see the past