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Why Talking to Yourself Might be The Highest Form of Intelligence « Just Seven Things
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Just Seven ThingsAbout« Seven Simple Rules for Personal Productivity Our Ability to Focus is the Subject of a Battle in Our Brains » --Why Talking to Yourself Might be The Highest Form of Intelligence25Jan09Network Neurons 1 - Gerard79Have you ever found yourself asking someone a question you’ve been puzzling over for a long time, only to come up with the answer half way through asking the question?At Madgex, the developers refer back to an old beer advert for John Smiths when trying to solve problems ...
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e-framing the question by talking to yourself leads to sudden bursts of genius: http://bit.ly/aveehg -4C and very sunny
I talk to myself like this example: “Wow, what did I do with my attitude to my daughter…well, she will be okay cuz she knows what to do and I’m not going to enable her”.
Just because Taylor had a stroke doesn't get her off from citing sources...
I feel reassured. Thanks for the feeling.
vorsprung durch technik
During my student days ....(man, that makes me sound old, I'm 21 (+8..))
I noticed that if I just forced myself typing down the beginning of a report on a project that I had no clue on which end to begin with because I felt it was too big, too diffuse, too hard, still stuff would just "open up" as sunlight of enlightenment would break through this cloudy project and guide me through to the
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Well, to be accurate 100% is in use. 30% on sex, 30% on beer, 30% on breathing, and the final 10% on actual work. At least that is my experience.
[Rubber ducking](http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174.html)
Ding!
That's it! Thank you.
I feel much better after having read the article.
I only talk to myself so I can hear my thoughts over the voices in my head. Thanks for the article now I can prove I'm not crazy.
I make up weird little Joe-Pesci-and-friends scenarios out loud when I'm bored.
All the coders do that.
Most of IT does that.
You wrote;
“By talking to yourself (again, words or paper is good – words may be better because of how unusual you may experience the sensation), your conscious brain gives a clear set of instructions to your other-than-conscious brain.”
I am a big believer in this. In fact a lot of the thinking I have done over the last year or two involves asking myself “how I
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I talk to myself several times a day. Out loud. Emphasis on loud. Sometimes in front of people. Bewildered, often horrified people.
About three hours ago I was smoking outside, staring at a trash can, and said, rather loudly, "I'm not you're damn lap dog anymore, I'll never let you abuse me again." There was a fairly attractive girl right outside my field of vision who I now know I have absolutely
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You should have just kept on for a bit so perhaps she would think you're on the phone via Bluetooth headset in the ear opposite her.
I am the smartest person I know....
Ingenuity or paranoid schizophrenia?
People always thought I was insane when I talked to myself. Now if they could find a something that said talking to the dog makes me smarter.
FUCK SHIT ASS DOUCHE BAG. I guess you can call it talking to your- FUCK ASS FUCKHOLE -self.
I talk to myself a lot. However, I don't do it out loud. It all stays in my head. That way, I can talk to myself and not look crazy.
I talk to myself ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I live alone, and don't have any friends that live around here. The worst part is when someone catches you talking to yourself. I don't know why some people find it so weird.
evidence that we're not all crazy... http://bit.ly/4NwsXg
We ar not that crazy
http://bit.ly/5VLNe1
Answering UR own questions halfway thru asking them? Here's why http://bit.ly/84MuYF
I pretend to use my cell phone and talk to myself in public.
I always had a feeling this was correct: http://bit.ly/66J7ZJ
[...] Why talking to yourself may be the highest form of intelligence (Just Seven Things) Brilliant little post this. I would add a related point, that the most effective study method is actually teaching. Students that must teach study partners a bit of material will engage it at a deeper level as they anticipate questions. [...]
I always thought about that. I always seem to have the best conversation when I am talking to myself.
Upvoted out of wishful thinking.
I'm not crazy! I'm a genius! A GENIUS!
Although, if you check out a post I made earlier today, you can see I'm not much of a genius at all. So maybe I'm just f'ing crazy.
Albert Einstein knew that.
So do I.
It is obvious.
Good advice, now I don't feel as strange.Do dogs count?"Why Talking to Yourself Might be The Highest Form of Intelligence" http://ow.ly/XVdx
Why am I reading this? I don't know. I found it on reddit. `seemed interesting. Ok, but you're only wasting your time.
I think the reason for this is semiotic.
When we think, we are often considering multiple future possibilities without the reductive restrictions of language. The conscious mind treats a large number of valent expectations as potentially equal, a kind of superposition state. If you introduce a rule, you collapse a large swath of inviable propositions.
When we translate our thoughts
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I was just saying that to myself the other day.
Yea, go ahead and tell yourself that.
Aletheia
Instead of talking to myself, I often explain my situation/solution/design to someone who I believe to be sharper on the subject than myself. I then give myself advice back to with their voice.
Much like someone here mentioned a while back that when they are disappointed in their self, in their mind they are to be scolded in the voice of a much disappointed Morgan Freeman.
Oh, how I wish my coworkers weren't so "intelligent".
Yeah, it’s called maieutics. Greeks knew it 2500 years ago.
I don't know how related this is, but I find it amusing. When I was in high school I had several people (mostly mentally impaired cheerleaders) ask me "why do you talk to yourself?" My response was "it's the only intelligent conversation I get around here." Perhaps not the best response, but it was fun.
I would like to believe this.
[...] it: most Twittering we do is talking to ourselves. That’s OK & here’s why – http://bit.ly/55jxaH Rationalizing the E2.0, SCRM, social business discussion, by @dahowlett – [...]
"Aw look at that. A link about autodidacts. Yeah, thats like obvious about intelligence. If I didn't ask myself what protons were... Hmm I'll click it and the comments and say a thing or two.
Wait, I don't really want to talk with any of those fuckers. Fuck it."
* closes tabs *
I used to talk to myself when I was a kid. Maybe I should get that habit back? http://bit.ly/571HVJ
Talk to yourself to work through problems? Maybe you aren't crazy: http://bit.ly/66J7ZJ
Let's face it: most Twittering we do is talking to ourselves. That's OK & here's why - http://bit.ly/55jxaH
why talking to yerself is good for problem solving http://is.gd/6wjpL
Have you ever been stumped, only to get "un-stumped" the moment you ask somebody for help? Here's why: http://bit.ly/84MuYF
Talking to myself is just conversation with an intellectual equal.
Whenever I find myself talking to myself, I find that I'm just waiting for myself to stop talking so I can say my bit.
When I program I talk to myself constantly. When I review code I wrote a year or more ago I curse myself. My coworkers mostly keep thier distance.
Sometimes talking to oneself is the only guarantee of an intelligent conversation
Agreed.
Like, totally.
Talking to yourself - showing a higher form of Intelligence? I knew I'm not mad!! http://ow.ly/XFsh
Interesting article on why talking to yourself is very helpful. http://bit.ly/8O5kRc
This makes total sense. Great info to share with other humans, thanks OP!
I work sound for my high school theater program and theres lots of wires going every which way that like to get very tangled and messed up. We had a particularly nasty case where all the XLR(the type of cable used for sound equipment) going into the snake(okay fuck it, I'm just gonna act like you know theater terms) was in the wrong spots. The recievers were fucked to all hell and only one of the wireless ... See all content
Turns out you aren't crazy ;) http://bit.ly/8O5kRc
As a rule I always talk to the smartest person in the room. I just wish people would stop telling me you are talking to yourself again.
Well, I'd like to believe this headline is true...:) It's definitely true when I'm thinking through a problem, I talk it out and this seems to help a lot. It works well in the car, and these days I'm not even self-conscious if someone sees me talking, since they'll assume that I have a headset on or something...
Why hasn't anyone commented on
> our left brain is capable of directing (or impeding) our physical healing and recovery
Does this sound kind of hokey to anyone else?
Has anybody definitively demonstrated this sort of thing? It seems to me it would be really hard to do, because things like attitude are subjective and I don't see how you could avoid biases.
Somewhere out there is a woo-woo peddler gleefully adding that quote to their list of "things real scientists said that prove my woo."
Apparently, talking to yourself is a good thing http://bit.ly/66J7ZJ
cool article. I'm always glad to see interest in this sort of thing.
something else to consider is that, while talking to yourself does help, there are additional benefits to talking specifically to other people, such as the prompt to communicate in a way that can be understood by a third party, and the deliberate specialization of this communication to the particular receptivities of the
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Well, my concepts and thoughts contain meanings that cannot be articulated in any known language. I'll just have to wing it.
Aghwaaaa ulumoovoo, Aggawoowoo moowoo, alpata knee wugga.
AHHA!
I must be a goddamned genius then. I talk to myself all the time.
I must be brilliant.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a schizophrenic
and so am I
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Schizophrenia isn't the same as multiple personalities
You ignorant slut
you're right.
No he isn't.
poems are stupid.
shut up a you face.
shut up **your** face.
The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight talks to himself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyJVaIrn0bw#t=00m57s
He must be a genius... Yeah Baby! Yeah!
What about wandering around muttering crazy shit to yourself, does that count?
**How about writing comments to yourself on Reddit?**
*Quiet, you moron, nobody cares if you write comments to yourself on Reddit!*
**I was just trying to ask...**
*What did I tell you about asking stupid questions?*
**That there are no stupid questions, just stupid people :(**
Who are you writing too?:p
@vimoh Do not lose heart young Luke! http://is.gd/6uP9C It's the highest form of intelligence (Did I spell lose correctly?)
we better let out all those geniuses in the mental asylum
[Rubber ducking](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking) works, but from the article, it looks like their "link" to intelligence is just some writer's opinion.
I always knew I'd be vindicated some day: http://bit.ly/5bk1bK
circlejerk
If anyone's interested in exploring this further, the scientist Jill Bolte Taylor (mentioned in the article) gave an amazing [TED talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html) about her experience with having a stroke and the right hemisphere of her brain taking ove
The best ever TED talk ... IMHO.
I suppose this doesn't account for the neurotic rambling I do in the shower.
The mind is pretty much a collection of separate systems. One of the highest* levels of communication between them is verbalizing. So simply describing the problem lets different subsystems have a crack at it.
* by highest level I mean the most abstract and indirect, definitely not the fastest or the easiest.
I've read in a book that if you imagine, for example, you're having a conversation with Albert Einstein, you'll most likely imagine a personality for him and that you'll get decent answers to all your questions.
And if i'm not mistaken, there was a guy on the IAmA section who did something similar.
Yes, but it's still embarrasing when you turn around and someone's right there.
Food for thought for people that tweet (to themselves): http://is.gd/6utxE Talking to yourself may be a sign of intelligence.
Please, like this is some kind of news flash. I've always known that sometimes talking to myself is the only way to have an intelligent conversation depending upon who is around me.
I'm a fucking genius.
You're fucking a genius?
Yes you are.
I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.
I may be 23 and have Alzheimer's, but at least I don't have Alzheimer's.
This is not science, it is opinion. Show me the studies!
I note that this is also a bit of a puff piece for Madgex, as it turns out the writer is CEO of the company. The write also still refernces the 7+-2 (Miller, 1956) theory of working memory which has been deprecated for quite some time now in cognitive psychology circles.
Nice try, crazy people.
It's known as bouncing ideas off someone. They teach you this stuff in school
Or, the Dr. Gregory House method.
I want to believe this!
Does this only work if you are aware you are talking to yourself?
**Does this only work if you are aware you are talking to yourself?**
Let me know if you have any luck with this and I will try it too.
Old smokey got two hands, oh yes, old smokey got two.
Rubbery ducky [programming](http://mikenicholson.net/2009/04/rubber-ducky-programming.html).
"People do it everyday, they talk to themselves... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it." --Tyler Durden
This always happens when I email my technically superior boss for help.
Type out the email, figure the answer and cancel it. I think mainly its because I can kinda expect what his answer would be and figure it out the rest myself. Thank you batman.
> technically superior boss
LOLWUT
The boss is technically always superior, amiright?
is your superior technically, technically superior.
Yes, precious, false! They will cheat you, hurt you, LIE.
BOIL EM, MASH EM, STICK EM IN A STEW
Master is our friend!
Are you calling me sneaky?
You don't have any friends; nobody likes you!
I'm not listening... I'm not listening...
Posing a question to someone else, especially someone I think knows the answer, also drives me to anticipate what the correct response will sound like when someone gives it. Sometimes just mentally simulating a conversation with an expert is as effective as querying an expert.
Like I always say, once "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" percolates into society the way Freud has, things are gonna be PRETTY FUN.
Seriously, I always say that.
As in schizophrenia ? Hmm...
We agree with this opinion.
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