I default to monologue too and it has some serious disadvantages. I always had problems remembering to do stuff I "told myself" to do with some delay. Later in

I default to monologue too and it has some serious disadvantages. I always had problems remembering to do stuff I "told myself" to do with some delay. Later in life I learnt a trick from my wife who uses visualization for this. For example I need to buy something tomorrow after work - so I'll imagine myself stepping out of the bus, turning to shop instead of going directly home, and then I'll imagine myself passing by the shelf in the mall where the thing is and taking it to the basket. And like magic - I get an "internal notification" with this fake future memory when I step out of the bus, and then another when I pass by that shelf in the shop. It's like magic :) Makes remembering stuff so much easier.