I don’t know about other people, but I do know something about myself: I don’t fully know what I think until I either write it down or speak up. Moreover, the benefits of speaking up without fully thought through ideas is high in group conversations—rather than trying to complete a thought with one’s own limited repertoire of to-hand facts and concepts, one can use the group’s.
Also, few ways are more effective at discovering flaws in an idea than to begin explaining it to someone else; the greatest error will inevitably spring to mind at precisely the moment when it is most socially embarrassing to admit it.
I don’t know about other people, but I do know something about myself: I don’t fully know what I think until I either write it down or speak up. Moreover, the benefits of speaking up without fully thought through ideas is high in group conversations—rather than trying to complete a thought with one’s own limited repertoire of to-hand facts and concepts, one can use the group’s.
Also, few ways are more effective at discovering flaws in an idea than to begin explaining it to someone else; the greatest error will inevitably spring to mind at precisely the moment when it is most socially embarrassing to admit it.
I’ve had similar experiences, so it’s not just you.