Thinking about thinking

I was having my morning coffee in the cafeteria today and I was thinking about thinking. I thought I should share my thoughts. See I was thinking I should be thinking about my conclusion and what I need to write on it and how I can get it to be interesting and not just a summary and stuff. Well as I was thinking that I should be thinking, i.e. gathering my thoughts, I noticed that I was not thinking about the issue but just about the thinking. And then I came to thinking that I am quite proficient at thinking about thinking and actually also at thinking about nothing when I should be thinking. Mostly I was distracting my thinking by thinking about what the spoon looked like when I moved it and how the sun was shining and how I was drinking coffee. In other words I was thinking about nothing.

Then I came to thinking that maybe I really am good at thinking about nothing. Like I think some people get stressed out because they just aren't able to turn off their thinking about working when they get home. That is not a problem for me. I can be without thinking about work all the time. Ok, so I acknowledge this might not strictly be a good thing. But I can do it intentionally too. Like at night when I'm going to sleep I start thinking I should be thinking about what I should be doing at work tomorrow but then I start thinking that I shouldn't since I can think about that at work and at the moment it might just bother my sleeping. Then I just don't think about it. The problem in this method is that I think my brain actually works quite well at organizing my thoughts in those moments that I am just about to fall asleep. Thus thinking about work at night might actually be a good idea since I might wake up in the morning with a head full on great ideas. And I do feel I should kind of get the "big picture" about my thesis before I can write a proper conclusion. Apparently thinking about it during my coffee break does not work since I can only think about thinking or about nothing.

I don't know whether everyone is better at thinking about thinking than doing the actual thinking of the thing they should be thinking of. Is that so or am I the only one thinking about this?

Oh well. I have to get back to my thesis reading and thinking. I'm making myself work late (or "late") by taking my badminton stuff to work. Badminton at five.