On waiting well...
I don't do much "proper" carp fishing these days, but a couple of times a year I'll end up sat behind a pair of rods waiting for the buzzers to scream into life with a disgruntled carp on the other end. My favourite style of fishing is float fishing, but for both of my brothers their preferred type of fishing is modern carp angling, and- to be fair- they're good at it. In fact, it's quite an education to watch them fish. It may appear to a casual observer that they're just sat there waiting for something to happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. In those periods between runs, they're rarely inactive. They're making up pva bags, tying rigs, scanning the water for signs of carp showing, crumbling boilies, spodding, cooking, brewing the kettle, thinking about what to do differently- theirs is an active waiting, which is probably why they catch a fair few carp. There's a fair bit of waiting spoken about in the Bible, too.