&gt;  But from what I hear from others, apparently people actually think about things with words, and which words they have both enable and limit their thinking. I still don&#x27;t exactly know how that works, but apparently its common?<p>This isn&#x27;t common at all, but the belief that it&#x27;s happening is common.<p>What&#x27;s actually happening is that people&#x27;s thoughts automatically trigger language production, and they hear the words, the output of that process, in their head. But the thought comes first and the mental words are a side effect. Imagine your brain having an internal narrator who constantly reads your thoughts and shouts them out as formed sentences.