/lit/ - Literature

>>15586913
No, you guys are getting it all wrong. It is the thinking, reading is important but thinking is essential. Reading without thinking is probably inferior to reading instagram and thinking.

>>15586950
that's what I meant with "well chewed" words.

>>15586952
Yes, noticed that. Sorry.

>>15586913
part of me kind of hopes literacy becomes a specialty skill so i can become a highly paid scribe

>>15586913
Is this pasta?

>>15586966
Yes. Fresh pasta.

>>15586974
I could've sworn I read it elsewhere. Maybe I dreamed it

>>15586913
That picture is the most NPC cope I have seen for justifying not having an internal voice.

Is there any way to switch my thinking from an inner voice to something else? Sometimes I mumble what I’m thinking and feel like I’m going insane.

>>15586987
When you read the words "left", "right", "up", "down", what do you see? You imagine it in some way in your head, right? That's your brain decoding it into signals, which could be picturesque or not.

>>15586983
>tfw he thinks his inner monologue is a good thing

>>15586913
why not just write--

>see spoiler
Ah, we're good anon

>>15586987
Practice. What do you think that something else would be? All visual? Aphantasia can be overcome. More emotional/intuitive? Passion can be learnt. A synthesis or something entirely different?

>>15587002
Its called having a soul, ironic considering that you posted a pic of a saint.

>>15587011
Anon we both know that
>vocalization of language-based thoughts
Isn't what makes a fucking soul. Or else we'd just encode fucking speaker-feedback loops into AI and ladeeda skynet

>>15586987
>>15587000
And these signals become more and more complex as they appropriate to denser words, eventually phrases. If you develop a habit of reading like this, and not half-assedly, you will get better at it. Not only that, but there will be thought provoking situations in books, some could alter you in small ways. If you expose yourself to these cerebral gymnastics daily, you level up.

>>15587011
>Its called having a soul

>>15586983

>>15586913
telepathic hive mind superstar is good

Reading is a mere distraction unless used to expand the door to receive THINK. they are realms apart.

Based OP. There is so much great literature from the last few thousand years available to us that it's sometimes overwhelming. But, if we spent the time we waste mindlessly scrolling on reading, we can accomplish so much.

real nigga shit

>>15586913
>has to imagine a voice talking in his head when he reads
Why is this bad? Do you guys really not use an imagination when reading fiction and imagine the voice of the characters?

>>15587358
Well, for dialogue yes, but not narration.

>>15587368
Okay, so I'm genuinely curious, this is the first time I've read about this stuff.
So there are people who literally can't do things without a monologue?
Like I monologue when I read, I'm a brainlet I guess, but I actually enjoy reading with a voice, it immerses me more. It's never my own voice though.
But I can solve a puzzle in my head without any words. And just now I went to grab a snack, without saying "I am hungry and need a snack", are there actually people who have to narrate their own actions before doing something?

>>15587455
>Like I monologue when I read, I'm a brainlet I guess, but I actually enjoy reading with a voice, it immerses me more. It's never my own voice though.
for me it clicked when I read plato. the text was dense so I had to slow down and digest that shit, and begun cerebrating.

>>15587455
>it immerses me more

>>15587358
>>15587455
It's just a /lit/ meme. Well, it's a "CEOs read 10k books a year, get good" normie meme too.

Aight. I will replace it with reading, but you did not mention books so i will just read 4chan.

>>15587455
>>15586913
Personally I monologue externally while I am alone. Sometimes I will use my lecture voice and talk with myself for hours. I use this to connect abstract concepts and systematize what I know and what I believe to something with a clear structure.
I usually do not have an inner monologue while reading, solving problems, doing physical tasks, etc. It is easier for me to understand isolated ideas in the abstract, non-communicable way first. It is only the high-level picture that I prefer a monologue for, as I don't know of a better representation for complex systems of ideas than language.

>>15587552
based. me too anon.

>>15587455
>>15587358
I build the world in my mind and the even all unfold as if I was watching a movie, I can't actually put a word in my mind, if i need to think of a word I have to imagine it in my mind written on a paper and read it.

>>15587064
Jesus never laughed!

>>15587011
All living things have a soul, though not all living things have a spirit. That is the difference between someone with an internal dialogue and someone without one: the spirit.

>>15587000
>>15587019
based and san juanpilled

>>15587002
>>15587019
based and san juanpilled

>>15589245
Gospel of Judas