Fishing teaches you to sit with nothing happening for a long time and be okay with it. Plenty of people never learn that.

Waiting without needing anything to happen is a real skill, and almost nothing in an ordinary day teaches it. Hours where nothing bites train you to stop treating empty time as a problem. Most people never get that practice, so stillness arrives as boredom and gets filled. The patience transfers into things that look nothing like fishing.

Find your own version this week and give it an hour, a slow walk, a bench, a line in the water. When the urge to check your phone shows up, let it come and go instead of obeying it. See how long it takes before the quiet stops feeling like waiting.