> While walking along the pier, I would write in my head.<p>So, this makes me wonder if the author tends to subvocalize or has otherwise developed an ability that not everybody's got. Self included; I can't write in my head unless I really force it, for example by pretending to type on an imaginary keyboard.<p>And this:<p>> I felt so bombarded by cars honking, vendors yelling, and pedestrians screaming into their cellphones that parts of my brain went offline. Writing in my head was impossible.<p>...made me wonder if there's a threshold where inner narrative would be more interesting to the brain, but external sensory input becomes unavoidable.<p>And I wonder if, for photography folks like myself, that threshold is reached a lot faster. Perhaps we are way more sensitive to dopaminergic sensory experiences for example, making us photographer-types by nature. Not even because we prefer it over writing; rather, we can't avoid the visual-sensory impact. Personally I feel like I can even stay indoors and take photos that fascinate me all day long.<p>Thanks for sharing the article, it's always interesting to read about others' internal processes.