VITAMINS FOR THE MIND by Ron Reynolds #3628 (Friday, August 29, 2014) Thinking About Thinking Yes, the title is a little weird, but for every AdvoCare Distributor who really wants to do better and needs to do better, ‘thinking about our own thinking” is something that a lot of people just can’t comprehend; you’ve probably had people in your organization who did something that made you say, “What was he thinking?” Well, the answer very often is – “He wasn’t thinking! He’s on autopilot, and generally has no awareness of the consequences of his – or her – actions. There’s a relatively new term coined by a neuroscientist called “metacognition,” and if you’re serious about wanting to work on your own thinking so you can make some necessary and valuable changes, it would be good to understand that word. First of all, ‘cognition’ is the process or faculty by which knowledge is acquired. Cognition is also ‘that which comes to be known,’ as through perception, reasoning or intuition. Cognition is also how you feel about what you know, and how you understand it or whether you understand it and it’s also how certain you are about what you ‘think’ you know. But what about ‘metacognition’? Well, it means our ability to evaluate our own thinking, and if you can’t evaluate what you think, then it simply isn’t likely that you’ll ever make any substantial changes, because you’ll go around repeating how you’ve become, based upon what you’ve learned. There’s also a condition that a good number of people have called “faulty metacognition,” which means your ability to evaluate yourself is not working well. At this point, you may be thinking – “I know a lot of people who are that way.” I’ll bet you do, because a lot of people are that way. I may have ‘lost you’ with my attempt to explain metacognition and faulty metacognition, but it comes down to whether a person can assimilate what they’ve learned and to then intelligently use that knowledge to help them get better results in life and in business. It also included the ability of your brain to know when what you think you know is actually accurate. People who have trouble making decisions may have faulty metacognition – they know lots of things, but when you teach them, and they go into their world and try to apply what you’ve taught them, they often seem to come back to you with more questions based on the fact that they’re not able to make decisions on their own based upon the knowledge that you – and they – think they have and understand. So much of what it takes to succeed in AdvoCare is directly attributable to our own ability to make the decision to join, to learn, to apply what we’ve learned, to make some judgments and revisions in our technique when we don’t get the results we want from applying what we think we’ve learned, and even on whether or not we stay long enough to change some things about ourselves that in the beginning were not easy to do. Along the way, as you try to make others think about their thinking, try thinking about yours. The views expressed on this post are those of Ron Reynolds and do not necessarily reflect the views of AdvoCare.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:00:01 +0000
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