[Neurons] 2019 Neurons #11 DO YOU HAVE WIMPY META-COGNITIVE POWERS?

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2019 Neurons #11

March 11, 2019

 

ARE YOUR META-COGNITIVE POWERS

WIMPY?

 

There is "thinking," and then there is real thinking.  Most thinking is
System-1 thinking- the fast thinking of Kahneman which is automatic, easy,
inevitable, and without effort.  You do this kind of "thinking" whether you
want to or not.  It operates from the lower levels and functions of your
brain.  Here you are on automatic.  Kahneman says that real thinking
involves cognitive effort, even strain.  It is the kind of thinking that
requires choice and intention.  So Daniel Kahneman also notes that when you
opt for the path of least resistance, you are actually let your
meta-cognitive powers go wimp.  When I read that- I got several ideas about
wimpy meta-cognitive powers.

 

Now your meta-cognitive powers are your higher executive thinking powers-
considering, questioning, exploring, doubting, explaining, reasoning,
creating, inventing, synthesizing, systematizing, etc.  These are your
powers or functions above and about other cognitive powers.

 

1) Wimpy meta-cognitive powers means you are highly limited in "running your
own brain."  To "run your own brain" you have to "go meta" to your thinking
and to your emoting.  You have to transcend the primary state so that you
can observe your thinking, monitor your thinking, learn about the way you
think, the ecology of your thoughts, meta-model your linguistic expressions,
etc.  When you can do all of that, then you can choose the best thoughts and
beliefs.

 

2) Wimpy meta-cognitive powers means you struggle to govern your attentions
with your intentions.  At the primary state these are your attentions- what
you pay attention to and unless you set higher intentions, you will live
attentionally.  Then you will be a pawn of social media, of advertisements,
of TV, of political correctness, etc.

 

3) Wimpy meta-cognitive powers means you will struggle in making high
quality decisions.  The only "decisions" at the primary state of fast
thinking is your automatic programs- pleasure, short-term values, what looks
good, etc.  To truly decide and to be a informed and skilled decision maker,
you have to access your conative powers- which are part of meta-cognition.

 

4) Wimpy meta-cognitive powers means you probably struggle with your sense
of self, personhood, and "being."  A rich, robust, and strong sense of self
arises as a concept that you build with your best thinking.  What's
automatic are the programs you experienced form your parents and peer
groups.  And that probably means that you have constructed a conditional
self-value, one dependent on various things.

 

5) Wimpy meta-cognitive powers means you avoid real thinking, and default to
what others have thought, and to being politically correct.  This describes
the life of a slave, not a free person.  You are defaulting to the easy and
fast thinking.  To get approval.

 

6) Wimpy meta-cognitive powers may mean you fear real thinking.  And why
would you fear thinking?  Because you don't know what it will bring up,
where it will take you.  So you opt for that status quo and to keep
confirming your present biases.  Without developing your meta-cognitive
powers, you may even fear thinking.  "You better be careful, you think too
much!"

 

 

Your executive thinking (which you can develop as skills) are those that
arise in your neo-cortex and in your pre-frontal lobes.  These are the
powers that enable you to be executive of your own life.  Without developing
these, you are a pawn, a worker in your own factory, a non-voting member of
your union, a slave on your on plantation, a citizen of a country without a
government, a choir member without a conductor.  Now let's say that you
discover that your meta-cognitive powers are wimpy, under-developed, now
what?  Get a cognitive make-over.  Discover your executive thinking patterns
and develop them.

 

 

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L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

Neuro-Semantics 

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