2 IDEAS FROM ME
Metacognition is the life-enhancing skillset required to notice and reflect on sensations, thoughts, feelings and reactions. It’s a higher-order thinking skill that allows you to reflect on the effectiveness of your thinking content and process and adjust when it’s not working.
Metacognition interruptions are sacred pauses you create in the present moment to notice repeated negative patterns externally and internally and deliberately choose a self-compassionate response based on gratitude rather than fear. These sacred interruptions help you recognize uncertainty, imperfection, and impermanence and discern reality from delusion. It doesn’t automatically make you more creative or wise, but can improve how you magnify your signature strengths to actualize your true nature and highest values.
2 QUOTES FROM SAGES
“Metacognition helps us notice when our own thinking is misleading us.”—Richard Feynman
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates, Plato’s Apology.
1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE
Metacognition is a skill similar to rolling a kayak. It takes repeated practice actually doing it in a calm, uninterrupted environment with a qualified instructor for at least 30-60 days. A 10-minute daily meditation practice that creates this sacred pause coupled with experiments during the whitewater of daily living are proven ways to build the necessary mind muscle memory. What is your experience with cultivating metacognition interruption skills?
Namaste,
Duane Nelson
