The truly brilliant and happy people are not only self-aware, but they are also able to use metacognition to change their thought and emotional patterns which they previously observed with self-awareness.
Metacognition involves thinking about your thoughts and having the control and discipline to change responses to external stimuli and uncomfortable or harmful internal thoughts and emotions.
Metacognition is also the best way to overcome self-esteem issues because it helps one to identify and exit from toxic thought- and emotional-loops, and to then get rid of those harmful patterns from their minds and to replace them with more helpful and constructive patterns instead, which are based on reality rather than the worst-case scenario conjured up by an unhealthy mind.
The vast majority of people will never get close to achieving this state and I expect only a very small minority of people to ever reach this state, but I only need to find about five other people who can do this—one life partner, two close friends, and a couple of colleagues/collaborators.
Interacting, living, and working with them is a pleasure and we can make rapid progress in anything which we attempt.
Metacognition involves thinking about your thoughts and having the control and discipline to change responses to external stimuli and uncomfortable or harmful internal thoughts and emotions.
In other words, metacognition allows one to master their minds and emotions, which makes them into very stable, calm, wise, happy, and unflappable individuals who know, understand, and love themselves.
They don’t feel anger, envy, insecurity, sadness, or hatred towards themselves or others because they have converted these harmful unconscious patterns into conscious patterns which they can control and modify.
Such people are constantly and rapidly improving themselves with seemingly little effort, and interacting with them always induces a sense of awe and immense respect within me.
Self-awareness is merely step one and it allows one to observe their thoughts and emotions without identifying with them and without mindlessly responding to them; but observation alone doesn’t change anything.
Self-awareness merely allows one to observe themselves with full honesty. The next step is to change these internal patterns and processes which are deemed to be harmful to the individual.
All our actions and feelings originate from unconscious patterns in the mind, and self-mastery is achieved by becoming conscious of these patterns and then being able to modify them.
For example, someone with metacognition would realize when they feel envy towards someone, and then they would understand that this emotional response is not productive, and they can then change their response to instead feel admiration for the person they were previously envious of, and they can then befriend and learn from that person and also feel genuinely happy for them.
Metacognition is also the best way to overcome self-esteem issues because it helps one to identify and exit from toxic thought- and emotional-loops, and to then get rid of those harmful patterns from their minds and to replace them with more helpful and constructive patterns instead, which are based on reality rather than the worst-case scenario conjured up by an unhealthy mind.
Metacognition allows one to analyze and modify their internal patterns to make changes in their behavior in the real world.
People who are competent at doing this difficult internal work are truly happy because they are not slaves to their minds and emotions—they have undoubtedly mastered themselves.
The sky is the limit for such people in every sphere of life such as relationships, work, finding meaning and purpose, achieving profound happiness and satisfaction, etc.
The vast majority of people will never get close to achieving this state and I expect only a very small minority of people to ever reach this state, but I only need to find about five other people who can do this—one life partner, two close friends, and a couple of colleagues/collaborators.
Interacting, living, and working with them is a pleasure and we can make rapid progress in anything which we attempt.
I consider metacognition which is predicated on self-awareness to be the highest form of human intelligence since it enables all great achievements and personal development by removing the artificial mental limits which most people unknowingly place on themselves.
Only people who have developed metacognition can experience true freedom and happiness, and they can realize their full potential because they are no longer fighting themselves and because they don’t create their own misery.
Only people who have developed metacognition can experience true freedom and happiness, and they can realize their full potential because they are no longer fighting themselves and because they don’t create their own misery.
Have a wonderful day.
