According to Ilchi Lee, originator of the Brain Education System Training (BEST), there are five steps to reaching your full potential, with each step building on the previous one to affect your body, mind, and spirit. Once you reach the fourth step--brain integrating--you will be well on your way to achieving metacognition.
John H. Flavell, credited for coining the term, believes “metacognition refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them.” It refers to a level of thinking that involves active control over the cognitive process used in learning situations. Simply put, it is how you think about your thinking—your awareness of the learning process.
When you have metacognition, you have the skills to plan approaches to learning new things and to comprehending and evaluating them as you progress to the completion of each new task. Or as Lee writes in his book, In Full Bloom: A Brain Education Guide for Successful Aging, “you [will be] aware of your own mental operations—aware of the workings of your mind.”
What does this mean for you? Well, once you understand this, you will be better equipped to answer questions such as, what do your relationships, spiritual beliefs, life goals, sense of identity, personal character, and life mean to you?
Take the time to ask yourself these questions, then dig deep within to find your answers—they are there; they always have been.
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