Do you often speak to yourself? Do you love talking to the mirror? Voila! You might be the genius. Studies prove that talking to yourself makes you smarter and your brain works more efficiently. When you think out loud you may have the tendency to complete tasks easier. It is told that Einstein used to mumble to himself most of the time, people used to call him insane but we all know what that insanity actually did. Today he is known to be one of the most genius minds that ever existed in the universe.
As children we all have been told that by talking to ourselves or mimicking our parents, for some reason is always considered to be rude. While mimicking might actually be something rude (and we won’t defend it) but talking to yourself is not insane, it is a sign of you believing in yourself, it is one of the intra-personal acts.
Psychologist Daniel Swigley says that talking to yourself when you know what you’re looking for speeds up the finding process because it sparks up the memory.
Logically, when you talk to yourself, you’re paying attention to someone who knows you more than anyone: you. If you berate yourself for doing something stupid and regret about something you’ve done, obviously your self-talk is going to make you feel even worse about it. But if you get a good dialogue to yourself, you can make real headway in clarifying your thoughts and even uplifting your mood.
Here are a few benefits self-talk can give you:
So if you talk to yourself, trust us when we say that you’re not insane- you’re actually a genius!
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