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Metacognition — the ability to observe your own thinking — is what makes self-correction possible. Without it, you cannot debug your own reasoning.
Metacognition — the ability to monitor, evaluate, and regulate your own thinking — is not an innate gift. It is a trainable skill with measurable components, and the people who treat it as fixed are the ones most trapped by their own blind spots.
Paying attention to a thought alters its content and emotional charge. You cannot observe your own thinking without changing it — and that change is not a bug. It is the mechanism by which self-awareness becomes self-intervention.
When you resist writing something down, examine what you are avoiding. The resistance itself is data about what matters most.
Your emotions are data, not noise. Recording them creates the only dataset that reveals what your conscious reasoning consistently misses.
Strong feelings about an observation usually mean it touches something important.
Feedback you only hear once is feedback you will distort, remember selectively, or forget entirely.
You can examine your own mental models and evaluate whether they serve you.
The gap between what you say you value and what you actually do is the most important contradiction to examine.
Resistance to certain feedback signals it touches an important blind spot.
You have unconsciously delegated cognitive authority to specific people, institutions, and information sources. Identifying these delegations is the first step to making them conscious choices.