Do you ever think/talk to yourself and learn stuff from it?

I do that. A lot. It’s the only way I can solve a problem sensibly that and this site..

Yes – not to do it again. Talking to yourself adds nothing new.

Ha-ha! I really do.

It helps me organize my thoughts better.

This is such an interesting question. Because I don’t even think about my problems, never mind talk to anyone or myself about them. You didn’t say the word problem, but your question evoked that response in me. People say write it down, I think I should write things down. I did try once but it made no difference at all to me. It was just a bunch of words which I already knew.

Yes, although not aloud.

Lol, I talk to myself out loud all the time. It’s a bit like having someone else there for a sounding board. Hearing the thoughts verbalized often gets me thinking along different tangents and helps me with whether the “tone” of my thoughts agrees with what I’m saying. It also helps me organize and cut down on the clutter when I speak, particularly to groups.

That’s cool. To distort a Woody Allen quote a little bit, talking to myself is a conversation with someone I love (nah, I’m not that much of a narcissist). :) I do the same thing, and as wonderingwhy said, verbalizing my thoughts helps me to understand how I feel about a particular situation. Self-talk is a good way to “know thyself”. Also keeps me sane when I’m alone. Haha.

Lately I have gotten into the habit, when trying to solve a problem, of having a written conversation with myself. I might write something like “Would if work if I…” and think about it and then answer myself, “No it won’t work because…, but it might if…” I find this is helpful in getting me to focus and avoiding getting stuck in a rut.

I sometimes do that, but it never helped me.

Always.

shhhh…can anyone hear me….okay self, get your ass up and mow the lawn!

That’s the way I practice my speech and build my charisma.

Oh, yes! You see, I’m frightfully clever! Hahaah!

Yes!

No we don’t!

Shut up, you!

Don’t tell him to shut up, you shut up!

Occasionally I will talk to myself.
I am the only person I can get any sense out of at times LOL

all the time. find it quite difficult to find someone who could really respond.

Yep, sometimes.

I always joke about ‘there’s a lot of us in there, we all get along just fine! ’ lololol

Sometimes I do, mostly while driving. I’ll make myself ask a question out loud, listen to how I’m asking and then think of different ways it could be understood and reacted to. From there I imagine the person I’m talking to, their character, habits, etc. and come up with likely responses and then see where I go from there. A lot of times I can reason myself out of bringing up things when I’m irritated that wouldn’t have lent anything positive. When I’m flustered and off guard then at times it’s best for me to remove myself and go role play. The really important stuff will still be with me but I’ll have a better frame of mind to tackle it with.

Self: “That woman looks awful pretty with those shoes on.”
Self2: “I wonder if she’ll look pretty if they’re taken away from her.”
Self3: “I wonder if she’ll look pretty if those legs are taken away from her.”

Self: “Well I guess we have our night planned, boys.”

I do it all the time. I don’t learn anything new, but it does help me remember what I already know and organize my thinking.

Constantly. Rarely to solve problems but often to evaluate and design ideas, conceive new conversation topics and generally stimulate myself.

One can learn many new things from this process by integrating thoughts that had never thought to be combined in the past and by encouraging further learning.

…by integrating thoughts that one had never thought to combine in the past…*