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RichardKennaway comments on Talking to yourself: A useful thinking tool that seems understudied and underdiscussed - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 September 2014 09:30:29PM 9 points [-]

I often "talk" to myself not out loud, but by typing my stream of thoughts into a text file, recording the questions I'm asking myself and the answers I'm coming up with.

Sometimes, just having a pen in my hand seems to improve the flow of thoughts, even if I don't actually write anything.

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