I've always had a pretty frequent and strong inner voice. I've learned to somewhat silence it when I read Chase Hughes's book Tongue. I find that having it active makes it harder to pay attention to people, empathize and learn new material, so I often have to exert myself to turn it off. It takes a lot of mental energy, so even though it tends to reactivate quickly, it's easier to relax when it is silenced. I think the inner voice can be useful when it metabolizes new information but unchecked it tends to eat its own feces so to speak and accomplish nothing while expending a lot of energy. My family has a pretty long history of both mental illness and anti-social criminal behavior, though we are generally pretty intelligent.
(a) what if someone has no inner voice because they are not as linguistically attuned, and thus have inner images or inner text? conversely, what if someone is more verbally attuned, and thus lead them to have aphantasia rather than a lack of internal voice?
(b) what are the chances this is correlated to big five personality (neuroticism as p-factor, disagreeableness as d-factor), or intelligence (g-factor)?
I've always had a pretty frequent and strong inner voice. I've learned to somewhat silence it when I read Chase Hughes's book Tongue. I find that having it active makes it harder to pay attention to people, empathize and learn new material, so I often have to exert myself to turn it off. It takes a lot of mental energy, so even though it tends to reactivate quickly, it's easier to relax when it is silenced. I think the inner voice can be useful when it metabolizes new information but unchecked it tends to eat its own feces so to speak and accomplish nothing while expending a lot of energy. My family has a pretty long history of both mental illness and anti-social criminal behavior, though we are generally pretty intelligent.
Jensen, I suggest you get on the network -you'll thank me later:
https://eharding.substack.com/p/why-does-russian-physical-therapy
I'll look into it
Thank you, poster.
Counter-challenge:
(a) what if someone has no inner voice because they are not as linguistically attuned, and thus have inner images or inner text? conversely, what if someone is more verbally attuned, and thus lead them to have aphantasia rather than a lack of internal voice?
(b) what are the chances this is correlated to big five personality (neuroticism as p-factor, disagreeableness as d-factor), or intelligence (g-factor)?