I think visually, in sounds and in words.
If you're not thinking in words it changes how you understand things. Certain types of problems have to be visualized in order to understand, no amount of hashing them out as theoreticals will ever really make one's understanding become intuitive.
Say something involving fluid dynamics; there's loads that have been written on the topic in all sorts of contexts whether it's water, steam, air, air with fuel mixed in for an internal combustion engine, etc.
Someone who can only think in words on the topic would probably have to resort to coming up with mathematical models to try to understand the problem they're encountering and how to work past it. Someone else who can consider that math in a fuzzy but intuitive way might be able to actually picture how changes to it will play out and be able to provide a solution that they might not be able to fully explain in words and hard math.
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