metacognition and self awareness

by Katrina Karan: Self-Improvement

Most people never leave their own heads | they stay inside the stream of thoughts, never noticing what's steering it. neuroscience calls metacognition the highest form of intelligence, that skill of watching and understanding how you think. it's what sets reactive people apart from self aware ones. once you can step back and see the why behind your thinking, you actually get the power to shift it. rare few ever learn to observe instead of just exist