Depending on what I’m talking about, I might speak a lot faster than I can write. I haven’t measured this, though I would guess maybe around 150 words per minute. I write around 80 words per minute.
When I’m speaking I don’t really refine all my thoughts and it’s more of a blurping out of stuff that I iteratively correct as I’m speaking. I might say something like, “Ah, I got the solution. It’s X. Wait, no, actually, this doesn’t work at all. Maybe it is instead Y, because Y doesn’t have this problem. Wait, no, actually I’m trying to get at a solution here, but I don’t even understand the problem yet. Let’s first try to get a better understanding of the problem. ”
I think some people think I’m pretty stupid when I talk like this because most of the things that I’m saying are wrong or obvious in ways that you realize when thinking for 3 seconds. There’s a big difference between doing exploratory thinking where you’re trying to understand something and regurgitating something that you have understood in the past. Most people tend to not do this kind of exploratory reasoning out loud because it can make you look stupid. Well, at least I have never met anybody who does this to the extent that I’m doing it.
Actually, just talking about it makes me realize that I haven’t been doing it as much in recent times. I think in part because some people really, really didn’t like me doing this, and made me feel bad for doing it. I think that made me subconsciously update toward not doing it as much anymore. I think this is bad, especially because I did not even notice that this was happening. Thank you for making me realize that.
I think that when I want to produce high-quality outputs then I am probably a lot slower than when I’m writing just for figuring out what is even going on. When doing exploratory writing I would want to write things down that are like the aforementioned example of: “Ah, I got the solution. It’s X. Wait, no, actually, this doesn’t work at all. Maybe it is instead Y, because Y doesn’t have this problem. Wait, no, actually I’m trying to get at a solution here, but I don’t even understand the problem yet. Let’s first try to get a better understanding of the problem. ”
And these sorts of trains of thought are generated a lot faster than I can type.
A completely different issue here is also that I am often writing in bursts, meaning I don’t have anything to say because I am thinking (possibly non-verbally) and then a finished idea pops into my head that I could articulate with words at over 200 words per minute. So, when I have this sort of break and then go dynamic, my writing speed also slows me down.
Depending on what I’m talking about, I might speak a lot faster than I can write. I haven’t measured this, though I would guess maybe around 150 words per minute. I write around 80 words per minute.
When I’m speaking I don’t really refine all my thoughts and it’s more of a blurping out of stuff that I iteratively correct as I’m speaking. I might say something like, “Ah, I got the solution. It’s X. Wait, no, actually, this doesn’t work at all. Maybe it is instead Y, because Y doesn’t have this problem. Wait, no, actually I’m trying to get at a solution here, but I don’t even understand the problem yet. Let’s first try to get a better understanding of the problem. ”
I think some people think I’m pretty stupid when I talk like this because most of the things that I’m saying are wrong or obvious in ways that you realize when thinking for 3 seconds. There’s a big difference between doing exploratory thinking where you’re trying to understand something and regurgitating something that you have understood in the past. Most people tend to not do this kind of exploratory reasoning out loud because it can make you look stupid. Well, at least I have never met anybody who does this to the extent that I’m doing it.
Actually, just talking about it makes me realize that I haven’t been doing it as much in recent times. I think in part because some people really, really didn’t like me doing this, and made me feel bad for doing it. I think that made me subconsciously update toward not doing it as much anymore. I think this is bad, especially because I did not even notice that this was happening. Thank you for making me realize that.
I think that when I want to produce high-quality outputs then I am probably a lot slower than when I’m writing just for figuring out what is even going on. When doing exploratory writing I would want to write things down that are like the aforementioned example of: “Ah, I got the solution. It’s X. Wait, no, actually, this doesn’t work at all. Maybe it is instead Y, because Y doesn’t have this problem. Wait, no, actually I’m trying to get at a solution here, but I don’t even understand the problem yet. Let’s first try to get a better understanding of the problem. ”
And these sorts of trains of thought are generated a lot faster than I can type.
A completely different issue here is also that I am often writing in bursts, meaning I don’t have anything to say because I am thinking (possibly non-verbally) and then a finished idea pops into my head that I could articulate with words at over 200 words per minute. So, when I have this sort of break and then go dynamic, my writing speed also slows me down.