Thinking in Lisp

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
That's because it takes forever to think of the solution in Lisp and Haskell as opposed to a decent language. Faggot lispers will spend most of their time figuring out how best to abuse recursion because they think it makes them leet programmers or some shit.

it's easier for me to think of solutions in lisp then say C/C variants and java

Even easier in Perl for me

however I fail at thinking recursively no matter the language, any tips?

also since when was SQL a programming language?