Accurate or not, I had to call the communications something so I settled on verbal and nonverbal. Standing up planning a run I am usually in verbal thought mode early in an inning. When the table gets so open the run is obvious I go to nonverbal mode.
Down over the shot I should always be in nonverbal mode. I have planned out the inning, all that is left is to get out of the way of the unconscious and my body, let them execute my plans. Missed shots usually occur when my conscious wants to butt in!
Auctioneers have a saying they use to prompt bids, "Think long, think wrong!" I find that to be true in another meaning, think long carrying that thought down over the shot, I will probably miss it. One of the hardest things to learn was to get up off of a shot when my head wouldn't shut up! Conscious and subconscious need to stay out of the way, the unconscious is driving this train.
For awhile I was afraid if I turned things over to the unconscious I would have a train wreck before the conscious woke up. However, the conscious is sitting up in a corner somewhere wide awake. If it sees a problem coming up it will nudge the unconscious. Until then the unconscious is running the show.
While all kinds of different numbers are thrown out, it is generally acknowledged the unconscious is more powerful than the conscious, maybe even a thousand times more powerful. Do we want the weak conscious running things or the much more powerful unconscious? Thinking in words is for the conscious. The unconscious may be working a thousand times faster, no time for words.
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