Do you talk to yourself? Apparently, you're a genius, not crazy.

[BanzaiCat]

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/people-talk-to-themselves/1105688/

Talking to yourself, it turns out, is a sign of genius.

The smartest people on earth talk to themselves. Look at the inner monologues of the greatest thinkers. Look at poetry! Look at history!

Albert Einstein talked to himself. He wasn't an avid social butterfly when he was growing up, and he preferred to keep to himself.

Einstein.org reports that he "used to repeat his sentences to himself softly."

So, you see? I'm not alone, and I'm not completely bonkers. I'm just really smart. Ha!

Talking to yourself makes your brain work more efficiently.

In a study printed in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, psychologists Daniel Swigley and Gary Lupya hypothesized that talking to yourself was actually beneficial.

[LongBlade]

Whew. I don't feel so bad now.

[mirth]

So I'm a genius?

[BanzaiCat]

I imagine, mirth, you're sitting in a basement office with posters of Marvel heroes and esoteric comic books from the 90s as well as ironic rock posters too, at a desk awash in ironic bumper stickers from the local Merry Go Round/Spencers mall outlet with the strained melodies of Muse filtering through your iHome speakers and probably six empty Starbucks cups littering the desk, where there is space between Travelers books and the latest D&D stuff you've found at Half-Price Books. Maybe with a D-7 Battlecruiser model hanging from the ceiling, next to a reasonable facsimile of War Rocket Ajax.

If THAT'S not an environment for you to talk to yourself in, I have no idea what would be.

[mirth]

I imagine, mirth, you're sitting in a basement office with posters of Marvel heroes and esoteric comic books from the 90s as well as ironic rock posters too, at a desk awash in ironic bumper stickers from the local Merry Go Round/Spencers mall outlet with the strained melodies of Muse filtering through your iHome speakers and probably six empty Starbucks cups littering the desk, where there is space between Travelers books and the latest D&D stuff you've found at Half-Price Books. Maybe with a D-7 Battlecruiser model hanging from the ceiling, next to a reasonable facsimile of War Rocket Ajax.

If THAT'S not an environment for you to talk to yourself in, I have no idea what would be.

That's the life I wish I had.

[BanzaiCat]

Well, make it happen!

That is what I envisioned, anyway. I imagine it's more like Yuppie IT Corporate Toolbag Office. More reflective of the organization than the actual occupant, of course.

[mirth]

I do have a Yo! MTV  Raps Collectible Card of MC Hammer adorning the wall of my cube. Sometimes I talk to him.

[BanzaiCat]

Add a Tupac poster.

If that flys, then replace it in a month or two with an NWA Straight Outta Compton poster. Up your game.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

There is a difference between thinking out loud and talking to oneself. The former aids concentration. The later is delusions of companionship.

[BanzaiCat]

Paint it however you have to, Biggs. :)

[mirth]

Don't rob me of my delusions!

[GDS_Starfury]

That's the life I wish I had.

and heres the life he has:

[mirth]

That's the life I wish I had.

and heres the life he has:

If only. That guy has a red stapler!

[BanzaiCat]

I have a red stapler.



EVERYONE should have a red stapler.

[mirth]

<sigh> My life is empty and meaningless