Self-talk involves only one voice talking to itself. For inner dialogue, several voices linked to different positions take turns in a form of imaginary interaction, says ■Wikipedia.
Examples of internal communication are thinking to oneself I’ll do better next time after having made a mistake or having an imaginary conversation with one’s boss because one intends to leave work early.
Thinking for a skill
■Mind practice is an exercise I offer with my grammar course, having done it over years before age 14, I retrospect now. The exercise was my “warm up” before doing exercises in thought. Then, my brain did not need it anymore. I attain my focus or thinking manner like taking up from the state the warm-up brought before.
Importantly, you do not talk to yourself at all, in mind either. Your object of thought is language, and you perceive your own mind. Then, as with the warm-up, the brain picks up from some stage it has integrated for skill. This is observable with virtual words, as ■here.
Motivational talk
Skilled thinking works for everyday living. The thinking style as presented by Wikipedia might come with motivational speakers and talk. You buy a CD and you learn to repeat to yourself you are the top of the world, or so it seems from movies. I have never purchased or followed anything like that.
Conversations would not follow scripts or scenarios, or so I believe without proof and yet somehow within the allowed error or correctly. I feel no need to talk to myself. I am kind of always in my head and thus I may think. Why take a roundabout form the direct process and go into “saying out” — I neither know nor wish to learn. Are you going to tell your boss he was supposed to say something else in your imagination?
Internal communication may be prompted internally or occur as a response to changes in the environment. The term “auto-communication” is sometimes used as a synonym.
The olden Greek ■autos says you do something if you like, that is, no prompts belong. Precious, those olden words are.
Internal communication central type happens purely internally as an exchange within one’s mind. (Other types) are mediated through external means, like when writing a diary or a shopping list for oneself.
The “pure interior” would be somewhere in the head, because there are “exchanges”, and things could not be in one and the same place to get exchanged. Consequently, within one mind, you get two types; the pure and that which does not belong with the pure, for exchanges.
We’d have to be so sorted, to have the pure and the other, for exchanges. Are we?
I have never been much of a gambler, but you likely could find a shrink on Earth to affirm it is ■scrupulosity, an obsessive disorder. I am just specialized at language psychology.
For inner dialogue, several voices linked to different positions take turns in a form of imaginary interaction.
A dialogue originally meant talk between two people; hence the dia- , for a thing for two.
For several voices “linked to different positions” and taking turns, it is… lobby talk.
Many internal communication models hold that it starts with the perception and interpretation of internal and external stimuli or cues. Later steps involve the symbolic encoding of a message.
Like an entire procedure: the perception, the interpretation, and the symbolic encoding would be things people do in Congress, except encoding messages from internal and external stimuli.
Some models identify the same self as sender and receiver; others as an exchange between different parts of the self or between different selves belonging to the same person.
How about we take a walk. The road does not interact with the feet; it just is there. Trees, greens, houses, they all, just the same, are there. Other people might be walking too, but usually no one bumps into another, and thus the people are where they are.
It would be odd to think about the feet as receiving or sending messages, or about own self, that we become someone else if we take a turn, or look at the other side of the road.
Positive and negative feedback received from other people affects how a person talks to themself.
Feedback is only what we ask for. Imagine people started coming up one to another in the street and commenting, on the looks, walks and all.
I imagine you talk to yourself when you’re distressed (I don’t, not everybody does, I explain a bit later); then, why would you have asked for it?
Intrapersonal communication is involved in interpreting messages received from others; an alternative is to hold that intrapersonal communication is an internalized version of interpersonal communication.
Now, with those people having come up one to another, when we listen to someone talking, we do not talk to ourselves in thought; as well, we do not “internalize” what they say, as human brains are not recording devices.
One Adler tried environmental theories about the human psyche. I know about those theories and still, associate the name primarily with a typewriter, because I had one some years ago and it was useful. Are we going to “internalize” the talk in the video, or just think?
Now I lay out what I have promised to lay out. Silent thought is the greatest, for thinking, learning, and memory. It occurs naturally and early in multilingual children. Most probably it is because the brain cannot think in different language forms at the same time, and it cannot switch them off either, so it develops the “silent paths”. From my introspection, those paths have something like “trace language forms” that make it easy for the brain to work one language one time, and another at another time.
It is probably never too late to learn. The book here has exercises.
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About money he said,
It is way better than barter. We may expect there would be some currency in the Great After; a constitutional parity might be a close idea.
For learning language, there are ways I lay out with my grammar. Feel welcome to the ■Mind practice.