Peter Chatterton Non-verbal Thinking

Non-Verbal Thinking

Here's an article about what I call Non-Verbal Thinking, or thinking without words. Everyone does this every day when dealing with familiar things, but I got interested in it during high school and over the years tried to develop it as much as possible. This article was an attempt to save other people the learning curve.

The Canadian branch of Mensa publishes a journal every month and I decided to write an article about NVT and see if I could get it published. WARNING: This is not an academic article in an academic publication and should not be judged by those standards. It's a first person thing about what I've done and do frequently. The tone is a bit assertive, but since what I was talking about doesn't seem to be recognized, my choice seemed either to be very timid and constantly say this was only my experience or to go hog-wild and assume what I do extends to other people. Initially I had hoped to make it un-falsifiable by only reporting my own experiences, but I got carried away, although not to the point of reporting other than my own ideas. If I were to rewrite it, I would try a middle approach, but I've had only minimal response so I don't imagine I'll have anything more to do with popularizing NVT.

Submission (winWord97.doc)

Proof (adobe acrobat.pdf)

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