This is exactly me. I'm a very deep thinker, or at least it's been my experience that I seem to think a level or two deeper on average than most people. I don'

This is exactly me. I'm a very deep thinker, or at least it's been my experience that I seem to think a level or two deeper on average than most people. I don't know if you're like me, but in my case my thoughts generally appear to me as objects, not as words (I've been told by a few people this is odd) so I find myself often having to convert my thoughts in words which can be extremely hard when you're thinking about something complicated and don't have a strong vocabulary as it is. A few things work really well for me. One is simply just to be comfortable with saying, "give me a sec, I need to think about how to best explain this". This gives me something akin to a memory buffer which can help give me time to collect my thoughts and explain them with less pauses and backtracking. Another thing that can work depending on the situation is to explain things with text where possible. I honestly think text communication is overlooked in a lot of offices today where verbal communication skills tend to be highly valued. I've found it's often not as useful to ask someone to explain something complex on the stop in person because unless they're a very talented verbal communicator they'll often be able to explain something far better if they were given some time to think about what they want to say and the best to say it which text allows. Alternatively if you don't want to explain something with text or can't you can ask for some time to write notes to help you verbally explain something. The final thing I do is make use of examples and resources whenever possible. I know I'm far better at explaining things when I can demonstrate something visually and use speech to narrate the process, probably because I think visually. Alternatively when possible I'll often just defer to a resource that explains something far better than I can. I was trying to explain CSS margin collapsing to a junior dev recently and instead of trying to explain it in detail myself I just linked him to some online resources which I thought did a good job and explaining it and said to ask if he had any questions. IMO, there's no shame in doing this. It's simply true that most things we're trying to explain have probably been explained hundreds of times before by people who spent far more time thinking about the optimal way to do it. Personally I'm not convinced it's possible to teach yourself to be a significantly better communicator. At least in my case it seems to be a mostly genetic trait given that on my dad's side of the family all the men seem to have problems with stuttering and explaining things. I've definitely improved over the years, but I based on a how little progress I've made despite great effort it seems unlikely I'll ever be that good at it.