Ideation and self-talk

Motivational self-talk is commonplace in various sports to boost performance. Could self-talk also apply to ideation as a performing-boosting power? The idea behind self-talk, among athletes, is that by stepping outside their immediate experiences and emotions, and viewing them instead from the detached perspective of a supportive onlooker, performers are allowed to take the fear of failure less personally and to make better decisions. For example, on a practice trial, performing athletes were asked to say out loud some of the internal thoughts they’d had during the performance. This gave each athlete a set of self-talk statements that was personal and relevant to them and, moreover, showed that they did better with second-person ("You") rather than first-person pronouns ("I"). Now to compare the effectiveness of self-talk using first-person or second-person pronouns is difficult as it is open to individual variations. Still by trying out self-talk as part of the ideation process, designers  may find it a useful tool giving a boost to their ideation power, possibly in addition to the practice and experience of "Thinking Aloud", that is, expressing thoughts as they occur, rather than thinking first and then speaking.