last highlighted date: 2024-11-20
Highlights
- “It slows down your thinking just by the nature of verbalizing something,” she says. “You have language that limits the amount of chaos, because you have to express it. You become more focused, and your anxiety levels and stress actually lower significantly.”
- Are people who talk out loud smarter? Or, well, the inverse? Very limited research has explored the connection, but Brinthaupt did find that college students’ GPA only has weak associations with tendency to engage in self-talk. He points out that GPA isn’t a great measure of intelligence. If he had to guess, he speculates that, on an “extreme level,” people with genius-level IQ levels might engage in higher levels of self-talk than others.
- Shoja, the headphone-wearing self-talker, hopes more people start to reconsider their preconceptions around self-talk. “We’ve made a decision somehow that talking to yourself is kind of cuckoo,” she says. But in reality, there’s great power in extricating all the thoughts and ideas jumbled up inside you and stringing them together into words and sentences meant for your own ears. “It allows you to feel seen by yourself,” she says, “and when that happens, you can allow others to see you.”