Wow! It’s good to learn something new every day! Lately I have being learning so much that my head is spinning like a trompo. Not only am I learning about ideas and about people I never heard of before, but some of these ideas even have Greek names --or at least they all sound Greek to me. I think that is the reason why my head feels like it is functioning in overdrive: too many Greek words in such a short time. On second thought, I also have been drinking more coffee lately, so that would be an alternate theory. I am referring to a new word I learned this week: metacognitive. If someone would have asked me a short time ago, what were my “metacognitive skills,” I would have answered that I had none, and that my health was excellent; because I would have assumed that they were talking about some kind of illness. But now I know that this has to do with, or is about, thinking about your thinking…
I think that thinking about your thinking is a good thing, if you really think about it. The brilliant French philosopher, writer and mathematician René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) said it best when he said, “I think, therefore I am.” Now because Descartes was a Frenchman, he actually said it in French, “Je pense donc je suis.”
I think that thinking about your thinking is a good thing, if you really think about it. The brilliant French philosopher, writer and mathematician René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) said it best when he said, “I think, therefore I am.” Now because Descartes was a Frenchman, he actually said it in French, “Je pense donc je suis.”
Now how often do we drink the kool-aid that is given to us and we swallow it, dead flies and all (ugh!!!), without thinking? I think this explains a lot of indigestion out there… but then again I am not a science major. I say this because I’ve been there... done that. For a long time, I was brainwashed by a certain political ideology; however, in the last seven years, or so, I began to see things very differently.
To be continued… I still need to get to my main point…
To be continued… I still need to get to my main point…
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