Subjects To Complex

Although many think that verbalization is essential to linking words with concepts, common experience shows that this is not so. For example, if someone asks a mechanic how a car works, he surely knows what to answer, but will have a problem in how to respond. The subject of his thought is too complex and multi-dimensional to be expressed in linear forms. He may be able to find answers- to mechanical problems in his mind without ever putting those thoughts into words. The same is possible with abstract ideas(which are also highly complex and multi-dimensional), though it takes practice because there are no definite “images” to fall back on. In some cases, especially when the thought involved is quite complex, removing the verbal component not only speeds up the thinking process, but can even lead to intuitive leaps that verbal thinking might have prevented.