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> The neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga has suggested that “When you get up in the morning, you think about status. You think about where you are in relation to your peers.”

This is far off from my own experience. :-(

> Left to your own devices, with no task demanding your immediate concentration, you tend to spend a good deal of time thinking about other people—your judgments of them; their evaluations of you.

Honestly, in such situations I typically rather tend to think about mathematics or programming problems (or at least something somewhat similar to this).

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Yes, I am somewhat of the lone wolf archetype - which is in my opinion not uncommon among programmers.