I have found this extremely relevant as a (primarily) non-verbal thinker.
I don't, generally, think in words, more in - I guess I would call it something like meta-shapes? A sense of a shape but not things I can exactly visualise.
(You might be surprised to read this and then hear I have an English degree. Surely I thought about Shakespeare in words?! Nope. Shapes, movement, structures)
For me, having to write is critical because it is the only way I practice serialising my thoughts in a way other people can understand.
If I do not then I get very "deep" into my own way of sensing ideas and it's difficult to dig myself back out.
This might also be why I have never been very enchanted by LLMs? They only seem to "think" verbally. So it is always a translation effort for me.
I never can really enter any "flow" state with an LLM. My intuition is that highly verbal thinkers can enter flow with LLMs very easily
I don't, generally, think in words, more in - I guess I would call it something like meta-shapes? A sense of a shape but not things I can exactly visualise.
(You might be surprised to read this and then hear I have an English degree. Surely I thought about Shakespeare in words?! Nope. Shapes, movement, structures)
For me, having to write is critical because it is the only way I practice serialising my thoughts in a way other people can understand.
If I do not then I get very "deep" into my own way of sensing ideas and it's difficult to dig myself back out.
This might also be why I have never been very enchanted by LLMs? They only seem to "think" verbally. So it is always a translation effort for me.
I never can really enter any "flow" state with an LLM. My intuition is that highly verbal thinkers can enter flow with LLMs very easily