• HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I think it’s a bit more than that. I think that the idea is that you simplify the problem so that the rubber duck could understand it. Or at least reformulate it in order to communicate it clearly.

      It’s the simplification, reformulation or reorganisation that helps to get the breakthrough.

      Just thinking out loud isn’t quite the same thing.

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      4 months ago

      Even though this is true for like 90% of my thinking (that I can see when I try), so far I’m concinced this ist because I am a predominantly language-and-normal-grammar-rules thinker.

      There are people that mostly think via associations of words that don’t have to be formulated/ cast into grammar.

      And then there supposedly people mainly thinking in pictures or smth, without words.

      Anyways for some people rubber duck mode reoresents a change in thinking method, I think

      • snooggums@midwest.social
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        4 months ago

        Yes, saying thinks out loud requires a different change in thinking because you are verbalizing the thoughts in addition to approaching it as an explanation instead of just an understanding. I know how a phone works, but describing how it works is a different thing from knowing. The duck is just a stand in for someone else to get the mindset of explaining