If we don't think at all, then we don't stutter because then we distract ourselves from the stutter anticipation (the trigger) which causes us not to feel or know that we will stutter. Like any classic CBT tools like distraction (not thinking what you want to say), this comes with upsides and downsides so in short, The upside of not thinking what to say is: \- you feel calm \- you stop ruminating ​ The obvious and important downside is: \- we are not learning from mistakes in order to change our perspective and response \- we don't learn that our stutter anticipation 'I will stutter now' doesn't have powers, doesn't belong in our identity and all of the life aspects, isn't fearful and isn't a fact/true \- we don't learn to change our stutter mentality, because normally when we speak we are constantly trying ignore, distract, stop or convince our stutter anticipation (trigger). By stop thinking about anything, you don't learn to remove your habit of ignoring, distracting yourself, stopping or convincing the stutter trigger \- we don't build resilience against the trigger \- we don't disconfirm expectancy \- we don't detach importance. So by not thinking about anything, we don't make the anticipation of stuttering less important and we don't reduce its meaning