There’s two stances I can take when I want to express a thought so that I can think about it with someone. Both could be called “expressing”. One could be called “pushing-out”: like I’m trying to “get it off my chest”, or “leave it behind / drop it so I can move on to the next thought”. The other is more appropriately “expressing”, as in pressing (copying) something out: I make a copy and give it to the other person, but I’m still holding the original. The former is a habit of mine, but on reflection it’s often a mistake; what I really want is to build on the thought, and the way to do that is to keep it active while also thinking the next thought. The underlying mistake might be incorrectly thinking that the other person can perform the “combine already-generated thoughts” part of the overall progression while I do the “generate individual new thoughts” part. Doing things that way results in a lot of dropped thoughts.
There’s two stances I can take when I want to express a thought so that I can think about it with someone. Both could be called “expressing”. One could be called “pushing-out”: like I’m trying to “get it off my chest”, or “leave it behind / drop it so I can move on to the next thought”. The other is more appropriately “expressing”, as in pressing (copying) something out: I make a copy and give it to the other person, but I’m still holding the original. The former is a habit of mine, but on reflection it’s often a mistake; what I really want is to build on the thought, and the way to do that is to keep it active while also thinking the next thought. The underlying mistake might be incorrectly thinking that the other person can perform the “combine already-generated thoughts” part of the overall progression while I do the “generate individual new thoughts” part. Doing things that way results in a lot of dropped thoughts.