How do I get into the matter of image/ vocallized thinking and what to teach?
Heyo :)
I'm currently thinking of creating a course for teenagers at a local school about all types of knowledge that I think is not being taught at school but very important.
One of the topics would be about the way we think, about the way others think and about how to use those different ways of thinking to make things easier for oneself or just get to know and train the brain better.
As an example:
I do mostly vocal thinking. Many months ago though, I realized that I can solve a sudoku much faster by not thinking about every number but by letting a different part of my brain do the work.
So I did sudokus every day and instead of vocalizing the numbers individually, I thaught myself to just look over the clusters of numbers (cluster of a field or in a row to see what's missing) and a part of my brain would give me the answer for me. It took a bit of time and it's still quite difficult/ exhausting for me but I got SO much quicker at sudoku.
I found similar phenomenons to be:
When you look around the room and all of a sudden have a word stuck in your head. When you turn around and look for it, it turns out that your brain picked up a random word that was maybe on a book somewhere that you didn't even notice.
When I'm about to get my period, I keep thinking that I should shave. At first I thought this was a coincidence or something but I think it's a part of my brain telling the language part, that I need to prepare for my period - in a weird way lol.
So basically the language part gets random info from all over the body/ other brain parts and I guess we can learn to let certain info through, like I did with numbers in sudokus. It's so much more efficient and I bet there's so much more to know about this topic.
I would love to have a class of teens, learn about all the different ways they think and teach them the sudoku thing. I bet that some of them already do it and others might get better at maths or numbers (since my brain matter isn't as flexible as it used to be - I don't seem to have much chance at learning new things easily lol)
I mostly want to do this cause the German school system is pissing me off and as a previous Hauptschülerin who got all the way to a bachelor's degree, I think that students don't get to learn many super important and interesting things.
So do you guys have any input on this or any scientific papers to get me started? I hope what I wrote makes sense, I mainly used perplexity.AI with the sources set to scientific papers to help me with the research cause next to my psychiatrist and therapist, whom I don't want to bother with this, I don't know anyone who would know these things :(
Sorry if the text is super long.
TLDR: What is some cool information about the way we think in images/ vocally that might be useful for teenagers/ anyone to know about to maybe even do tasks more efficiently and become better at stuff?