More on Thought Training – Thought Practice

I was walking along Navy Pier with my friend Ben, one of my oldest friends. Ben’s verbal skills are superb. He is truly a cunning linguist. He is articulate and expressive and he uses beautifully appropriate words in conversation.

Navy Pier

He mentioned to me a game he likes to play with himself.  The synonym game.  We came across a stop sign.

What are the different ways to stay stop sign?

“arresting indicator”

“octagonal pause”  I tried

“ruddy reminder” – okay, he wins

“halting harbinger”, he later added   – to help me serve up examples

 

I wonder what mental games my favorite people play. Maybe I should start playing them too.



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  • http://profiles.google.com/dan.tasse Dan Tasse

    Anagram everything. I often see signs or words on buildings or whatever and make anagrams of them. I don’t even think about it, it’s not like “I think I’ll anagram that sign now”, it just sort of happens. I think (though I have no way of proving) that this has led to some measure of skill at word games, especially fast ones like Boggle.

  • http://twitter.com/rikutter Riku Seppälä

    I always keep a map in my head, wherever I am. Even if I’m in a forest, I have distinguishable objects on the map, and the directions mapped out. So I could basically always draw a map of where I am. I don’t know if this counts, but I notice that many people don’t do this.

  • http://www.zacharyburt.com/ Zachary Burt

    very cool.

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