Is Listening To Your Internal Dialogue The Secret Of Learning And Career Success?

Is Listening The Secret to Helping Others Improve Their Productivity?

How many times do we want to talk things over with a Silent Partner,

compared to hearing what he/she thinks or knows? Is silence Platinum,

Golden or Silver? Neuroscientific research has proof.

I heard – if you give a JackAss a Harvard education, all you end up with is a SmartAss. Law school degree too?

Easy come, Easy Go

You read the front-page stories of your favorite newspaper or Internet

news site, and 10 minutes after you finish, you cannot recall the gist of the articles.

Unless you activate your PreFrontal Cortex to kick-in, your reading articles, reports, or books does NOT turn information into long-term memory. But, there

is a solution and Inquiring Minds want to know – how.

Feedback Loop

When we listen to someone explain his or her problem, looking for a practical solution, we really believe they came to us because we are a genius. We just cannot wait for them to shut up so we can steer them to the obvious answer they are too blind and dumb to see.

Wait. We do not want to dominant the conversation, so we just keep asking them

questions – relevant ones they are too involved to ask themselves.

No good (N.G.) it does not help them as adults and did not help them when Mom or

Dad did it when they were kids. They do not want or need a feedback loop to figure

out the answer, just a positive, smiling look on your (listener) face, and a nod or two

at the right time or place.

Secret

1. When we mentally hear (subvocalization, Internal Dialogue) our own

thinking about solving a problem, it produces sharper

comprehension, better reasoning and long-term memory.

2. Hold it. If we really understand the problem and search for a

practical solution, explaining the details of the challenge and our

reasoning to a second party, increases discovering a successful strategy

by up to 76%. The secret is NO external Feedback.

They want to hear themselves think. Silence by the listener is the secret. Mom, I’d rather do it myself.

3. If we explain OUT LOUD our understanding of the problem and our

strategy for a successful answer – and there is no one around to hear us. The feedback is personal (auto-didactic = Self-Taught) and improves our comprehension, concentration and consolidation for our long-term memory retention. Important. Read it once more, please.

4. If we are alone and seek a solution or use another for a Silent

springboard – and write a 3-4 sentence explanation and summary,

we improve our problem and decision-making skills up to 62%.