One of his funniest scenes as Spock was when Kirk asked him to work on some major problem during the episode and he continued to stand there talking to Kirk and McCoy. After a minute or so, McCoy asks Spock if he isn't supposed to be working on the problem.
Spock does his eyebrow thing and dryly says, "I am..."
Yes, I know the one.
Believe it or not that is actually a real thing. I have not need nor desire to compare myself to the character of Spock. But yes, it is true that I have said to my boss, "Now that you said that to me, I will figure it out." He would say, "What?" I would say just give me some time.
Sometimes they would just tell me something just to see what would happen. More than once it resulted in a surprising outcome. I like to be stimulated by a problem. I enjoy it.
In Unix/Linux/AIX we call this a background process. But it is a real thing. I have once or twice dreamed answers to complicated problems and implemented them the next day to make it work.
It is not common, but it is an excellent feeling when that happens.