📄 91 — Meta‑Cognition

Definition

Thinking about your own thinking — observing, evaluating, and adjusting your cognitive processes.

When to Use

• Complex decisions • Learning • Strategy • Self‑correction • Debugging reasoning

How It Improves Reasoning

It helps you identify biases, blind spots, and flawed assumptions in real time.

Steps

  1. Observe your thought process.
  2. Identify patterns or biases.
  3. Adjust strategy or perspective.
  4. Reflect on outcomes.

Example

Noticing that you’re anchoring on initial information and consciously correcting for it.

Prompts

• “Analyze the reasoning process used here.” • “Identify biases in this line of thinking.”