- Pretty interesting what kind of styles of self thought there is. Other than word centric (which sounds a lot like me) and visual thinkers there are also those whose thoughts are unsymbolised. - Even among visual thinkers there seem to be multiple types - spatial visualizer who can think abstractly and design things and an object visualizer who can see things and understand how it works. - It's really hard to know what your thinking style is. Even the mere observation of your style might change your perception of what your self thought might be. It's very hard to tell if what we think of our self thought is accurate. ----- "word-centric people have sidelined other kinds of thinkers. Verbal minds, she argues, run our boardrooms, newsrooms, legislatures, and schools, which have cut back on shop class and the arts, while subjecting students to a daunting array of written standardized test" "an engineer is likely to be a spatial visualizer who can picture, in the abstract, how all the parts of the engine will work, while the mechanic is likely to be an object visualizer, who can at a glance understand whether a ding on an engine cylinder is functionally consequential or just cosmetic" "In a book called “Perplexities of Consciousness,” Schwitzgebel points out that, during the nineteen-fifties, most people said that they dreamed in black-and-white, while in the nineteen-sixties they started saying that they dreamed in color. Surely, he argues, the colors of our dreams didn’t change; what changed was the ubiquity of color film." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-should-we-think-about-our-different-styles-of-thinking