[HN Gopher] The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself
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The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself
Author : gmays
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-11-21 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| greyface- wrote:
| See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
| RHSeeger wrote:
| That was my first thought; lots of developers talk out loud to
| themselves when working through code.
| semitones wrote:
| When I need to understand a personal experience, or digest a
| problem I'm working on, I often talk to myself and record a voice
| memo. I rarely listen back to the voice memos (although they are
| super nice to have as they serve as a historical archive of my
| states and progression as a person), the main benefit is in
| having the conversation with myself.
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| By forcing myself to verbalize what I am thinking and feeling, I
| always end up better understanding it. If I am dealing with an
| unpleasant situation, I can always find a way to feel better
| about it, or create a plan that I believe in, if I talk about it
| with myself.
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| Really, it's a form of therapy - it's not too dissimilar from the
| exercise one engages in with a therapist, except of course in
| this case you don't have a professional that can react to your
| outputs. Instead, the onus is on you to check yourself and self-
| process, which is very powerful (although of course there are
| limits to what you can achieve in a vacuum).
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| I find it effective to first elaborate upon my perspectives this
| way to myself, and only then share them with friends afterwards,
| such that they get a more cohesive presentation.
| fouronnes3 wrote:
| Over the summer I tried meditation. It was a great experience,
| but actually surprisingly difficult. A few weeks ago I decided to
| stop my regular meditation practice, and instead embrace kinda
| the opposite, and what's described in the article. Go on walks
| and fully immerse myself in my own thoughts. If meditation
| minimizes something, this is maximizing it - but without
| distractions. I find that long walks are sometimes very
| productive for introspection, and this is an experiment leaning
| into that.
| iolo wrote:
| I've started recording loom videos of myself walking through
| features. It's turned into a great way of testing my own code as
| subtle errors are more obvious when you've effectively set up a
| spotlight and pointed a camera at what you've built. The
| voiceover on top them acts as a form of rubber duck for UX.
| karaterobot wrote:
| Another benefit is, people give you a little extra space on the
| train.
| MrHamburger wrote:
| Especially when you will condition your brain to automatically
| start genuinely laughing on command.
| OutOfHere wrote:
| In this way, when you finally go crazy, you won't then feel so
| bad for talking out loud to yourself.
|
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| Talking to yourself is old game. The new game is talking to an
| LLM.
| trallnag wrote:
| How does that work in an open office with colleagues all around
| you?
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| It depends if you are really talking aloud or just sort of hum-
| mumble vocalizing.
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| I shared an office with a good friend until his office was
| ready. When he moved, he said he would miss the buzzy hum
| coming from my chair.
| pier25 wrote:
| I very often have an internal dialogue going on but for some
| reason when I'm walking my dog I start talking out loud. Not
| loud, I whisper, but my jaw moves etc.
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| During our walks I rarely encounter other people but when it
| happens I feel a bit embarrassed. Maybe I should just put some
| headphones and just pretend I'm in a call like the writer in the
| article (Ellie Shoja).
| geor9e wrote:
| No thank you, I am busy rotating a cow in my mind.
| patrickhogan1 wrote:
| I talk out loud to myself all the time, especially..
|
| "undefined is not a function. WTF!"
| hn72774 wrote:
| I am used to the term "thinking out loud." Isn't talking always
| "out loud?"
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| Which is the correct usage of the term?
| antisthenes wrote:
| Talking to yourself sometimes is the only way you can get an
| intelligent conversation going.
| nunez wrote:
| I've talked to myself since I was a kid. It helps me think
| through things.
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| Nowadays, I record these "self-conversations" into my Day One
| journal so I can look back on them later. It also makes me look
| less crazy when I'm doing this while walking outside or
| something.
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| That said, I check off several of the boxes that the author
| outlined in the article: introverted, enjoys spending lots of
| time alone, sisters but no brothers and rocky relationship with
| my dad.
|
| I'm glad this is getting attention.
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