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**Metacognition is an awareness of your own thought processes**.
Or if you like a [more formal definition](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/consciousness#:~:text=Meta%2Dcognition,-or%20reflective%20awareness):
> *Knowing, perceiving, and/or attending to your own mental states; or knowing, perceiving, and/or attending to the fact that you have certain mental states.*
Some like to say that **metacognition is thinking about thinking**.
Mental Models - Metacognition 🧠
Julia Clavien
🦎 Autoplastic vs. Alloplastic Adaptation: appropriately & advantageously adapting our own self to our environment (meditating so we can handle stress) vs. appropriately & advantageously adapting our environment to meet our needs (choosing a job that complements our work style)
Psychology Megathread:...
@dremilyanhalt on Twitter
“What I’m really interested in is joy in intellectual play,” Gladwell [says](https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/01/how-sell-good-ideas). “The unexpected turns that ideas can make is, to my mind, one of the greatest pleasures of being alive.”
The Profile Dossier: Malcolm Gladwell, the Thinker Selling Good Ideas
Polina Pompliano
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