I’ve been working on “listening” to my pre-thoughts. It’s interesting—once you catch it you automatically start translating it into words, or rethinking a thought “audibly”; it’s very hard not to. Then I usually make fun of myself by pre-thinking “echo.” On the downside, if you don’t translate it into words it’s vague and harder to remember—thinking with words is awesome.
For more concrete things you can also think about it with some sense—a touch, smell, sound, taste or sight that doesn’t need words.
I’ve been working on “listening” to my pre-thoughts. It’s interesting—once you catch it you automatically start translating it into words, or rethinking a thought “audibly”; it’s very hard not to. Then I usually make fun of myself by pre-thinking “echo.” On the downside, if you don’t translate it into words it’s vague and harder to remember—thinking with words is awesome.
For more concrete things you can also think about it with some sense—a touch, smell, sound, taste or sight that doesn’t need words.