Talking to yourself actually makes your brain more efficient

While I’m researching, Elite Daily’s article People who talk to themselves aren’t crazy, They are actually Geniuses explains how self talk helps people think orderly by introducing a study by Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

In the study, psychologists gave 20 people the name of objects (such as apples, bananas…), which they were told to find in a grocery store. During the first set of trials, the participants were expecting to be silence. In the second set, they repeated the object’s name out loud as they looked for it in the store. According to the results, test subjects found the object with greater ease when they spoke to themselves loudly while searching. Saying things out loud sparks memory. It solidifies the memory and makes it tangible.

From my experience, I always list out all things I need to buy before I go to the grocery store and while I’m looking for the merchandises, I always say them aloud like “where is bathing suit? Where is milk?” to strengthen my memory. Sometimes shopping guide feels strange and asks me “anything you need?” Although it looks really strange to talk to myself frequently in a grocery store along, it really makes my every shopping efficient. My mom don’t self talk and list out all things, she usually spent 2 hours shopping while looking for things silently. And I, spent only 40 minutes to finish the game.

Sometimes you have a very tricky wording problem, say chemistry. Wording problems always confuse me, however, reading the question out loud helps me greatly. This is I’m going to talk about next, reading out loud by yourself helps you organize your thoughts. Hearing your own voices actually can calm your brain and make you more focused and smart. Reading out loud can clarify the question and wordings will be easier to understand. This is always working for me and I did a lot better on chemistry wording problems in high school. Next time, when you have a complex wording problem. Just try read out loud the problem.

Craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent and efficient. We spend time listening to our hearts, do and say what we really want to do and say.

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