How is having conversations with yourself working out so far?

I think it’s helpful. Being dialectical with yourself and questioning your own assumptions can reduce the impact of bias on your thinking process.

@SavoirFaire Sure, but sometimes it just gets you going around in circles.

@SavoirFaire I guess. But that’s not always a bad thing. My whole profession could be described as getting stuck in a loop for centuries at a time before finally breaking free, even when we know roughly where we’re going. Just like driving in DC, however, sometimes you have to circle through the roundabout a few times before you can make your way to the proper exit. (Unlike driving in DC, though, the journey can be just as important as the destination when it comes to working through an intellectual problem.)

@SavoirFaire Good point. I’m sold.

@SavoirFaire Lol I see what you did there.

Going in circles. I may have to watch out for that. I have no wish to find more ways to waste time.

I try to walk a few miles in the morning and when I do I use the time to work things out. I have never considered what I am doing talking to myself but perhaps I am.

For me it works out great, I find that my mind will wander in multiple directions during the walk and often randomly circle back around to one of the subjects at hand (Yes, I have CDO. It is like OCD but all the letters are in the proper order, the way they should be) and when it does so my mind has approached the problem from a different direction than I started from. Sometimes it makes sense and the problem is solved, sometimes it just creates more confusion and will probably be gone over again tomorrow morning.

It’s the one place where I usually win most arguments.

It goes pretty well as we are usually in agreement with each other, though this does have the drawback of becoming pretty boring.
You shouldn’t have answered this question.
What do you mean?
People will think we are nuts.
Too late now.

When I was learning Japanese I would talk to myself and describe what I was doing in Japanese. While driving alone I would talk about what I saw outside. I think it helped.

It helps me enormously to have conversations with myself, even better when I can do it out loud. Putting words into coherent sentences helps me sort out my thoughts.

And the dogs find it amusing.

I only do it (vocally) in tough situation. Usually it’s to motivate myself, something like “come on, you know you can do it, you’re the best”. Other times when I’m imagining a conversation between characters when I’m writing a story.

Who better to talk to? :-) But most of my out loud conversations are more like, “Where the hell did I put that?’

The internal ones are often carried out at 3 a.m. and sometimes productive.

Works pretty good for me. I rarely lose an arguement, but when I do, boyyyy do I feel silly.

I sometimes have written conversations with myself when trying to solve a problem. Unlike, conversations in your head, a written conversation helps to avoid going around in circles. Having a written trail forces you to try something different.

It does help, immensely.

I’ve avoided a lot of arguments because I’ve said whatever I was thinking of saying out loud to myself first, and decided not to say it. It’s also cheaper than a therapist.