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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Audit your self-schemas in three layers—surface statements…

Audit your self-schemas in three layers—surface statements, narrative structure, and meta-schemas about change capacity—as each layer constrains the ones above it.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge at all levels), Values exist in a hierarchical structure with terminal… (values exist hierarchically), and Human cognition operates through schemas — structured… (schemas organize experience). Prescribes a specific STRUCTURE for self-examination. It's a principle rather than a practice because it describes the general architecture of self-audit, not specific steps.