When is it better to think without words?

But we all know thoughts aren't words, the words come after the thought. The proof is that you can stop your inner words mid-sentence and you still know what you were going to think, because the thought itself takes a few milliseconds, and happens before the words start.

I think a better way to show this, would be that anendophasia [0] is a thing.

Some people have no inner voice, but aren't thoughtless automatons. They can still task-switch the same as everyone else.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728320/

On 4chan and reddit, they actually believe that those without an "inner monologue" have no soul.