📄 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
- Observe your thought process.
- Identify patterns or biases.
- Adjust strategy or perspective.
- 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.”