I think I’m like >95th percentile on verbal-ness of thoughts. I feel like almost all of my thoughts that aren’t about extremely concrete things in front of me or certain abstract systems that are best thought of visually are verbal, and even in those cases I sometimes think verbally. Almost all of the time, at least some words are going through my head, even if it’s just random noise or song lyrics or something like that. I struggle to imagine what it would be like to not think this way, as if I feel like many propositions can’t be easily represented in an image. For example, if I think of an image of a dog in my home, this could correspond to the proposition “there is a dog in my home” or “I wish there were a dog in my home” or “I wish there weren’t a dog in my home” or “This is the kind of dog that I would have if I had a dog.”
I was the same way, but I honestly do not feel a negative impact from skimming the useless noise off. You should try it! Just catch yourself when you’re making short-term, ultimately unproductive observations. It helps to switch to thinking in a language you’re less familiar with. Then if you wish, you can return to the super-verbal state of mind
I think I’m like >95th percentile on verbal-ness of thoughts. I feel like almost all of my thoughts that aren’t about extremely concrete things in front of me or certain abstract systems that are best thought of visually are verbal, and even in those cases I sometimes think verbally. Almost all of the time, at least some words are going through my head, even if it’s just random noise or song lyrics or something like that. I struggle to imagine what it would be like to not think this way, as if I feel like many propositions can’t be easily represented in an image. For example, if I think of an image of a dog in my home, this could correspond to the proposition “there is a dog in my home” or “I wish there were a dog in my home” or “I wish there weren’t a dog in my home” or “This is the kind of dog that I would have if I had a dog.”
I was the same way, but I honestly do not feel a negative impact from skimming the useless noise off. You should try it! Just catch yourself when you’re making short-term, ultimately unproductive observations. It helps to switch to thinking in a language you’re less familiar with. Then if you wish, you can return to the super-verbal state of mind