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> Talking about your great idea to other people can only discourage you from doing anything about it.

But it also focuses you on your idea, makes you think about it, find the loopholes and so on. There's nothing like trying to explain something to someone to realize you don't understand it at all. Without trying to explain, you'd live on happily thinking you understand it.

> The problem is that it doesn't work, quite the contrary -- you get more angry / frustrated the more you talk about it.

That depends so much on your personality it's absurd. Maybe I hang out with women too much and their ways have rubbed off on me, but when I talk about my problems it helps me solve them. Don't care for the person's advice either, I just need someone to bitch at ... it helps me focus on the problem and see different ways of solving it.

It's probably similar to how pg claims writing helps him think, well, talking helps me think :)



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