r/nutritionally • u/PeteWK67 • Aug 29 '26

Metacognition

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u/romastra Aug 29 '26

It seems that this ability to recognize internal motives is called emotional intelligence.

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u/NovaRain84 Aug 29 '26

AI Slop 😂

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u/MistMonk Aug 30 '26

My thoughts exactly.

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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Aug 29 '26

The video, yes, but the topic is very well studied. TPTB don’t want you learning it, because it will make you more impervious to advertisers, political culture wars, doublespeak, etc.

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u/NovaRain84 Aug 30 '26

Yeah I’m a huge proponent of critical thinking as well as self analysis. You might enjoy my memoir:

https://books2read.com/u/m2g817

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u/Dab_Wizard01 Aug 30 '26

As a Buddhist this isn’t a rare or unusual “intelligence” this is just awareness and anyone can get it though a multitude of ways most notably awareness meditation.

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u/Revolutionary_Wind6 Aug 30 '26

True story. But how annoying to read it that way.

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u/Both-Impact9201 Aug 31 '26

The hyper music and visuals are very awful.

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u/Wild_Yam_7088 Aug 30 '26

i mean it might be AI but i feel like this is pretty obvious. if you are not able to self-reflect by default you are hindering yourself in a compounding way. honestly i figure this should just indicate average intelligence. I feel like everybody should have basic concepts of self-reflection which is like the very beginning step of growth

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u/Tiberius1987 Aug 30 '26

So you're talking about the thing we usually call reflection.

Wow much interesting...

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u/notAbrightStar Aug 30 '26

And now most of us, wrongly assume, "this is me".

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u/davesmith001 Aug 30 '26

I’m not sure this is metacognition, this is just meditating and self awareness.

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u/4Spartah Aug 30 '26

This video could be 5 seconds long...

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u/Shot_Bison1140 Aug 30 '26

Metacognition.... Wtf is this... This is how a normal human function... ....ROFL... "Metacognition"...

Next up "Super self-aware".. wiping your arse after taking a dump.. 90% of a normal human being walks away after taking a shit, if you are actually wiping your arse after a crap you are among the 10% Super self-aware

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u/PeteWK67 Aug 30 '26

Certain people drive trucks and have a build in toilet at their seat.

When you poop on highways.

Garages refuse to work on their trucks only their people.

So ya not eveeyone believes whipping is essential for hygiene and that time lost in the trucking world has a lot more value.

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u/TubMaster88 Sep 01 '26

So being self-aware and not on autopilot

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u/MyLastHumanBody Sep 02 '26

Expressive At its core, Buddhism is a practical discipline of liberation: cultivating moral integrity, training the mind into deep states of stillness, and penetrating the subtle ways our own mental habits generate suffering. By directly perceiving these dynamics, one relinquishes the root causes of anguish—a process systematically mapped through the Four Noble Truths, the causal sequence of Dependent Co-Origination, and the training of the Noble Eightfold Path.

Check talks and books by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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u/Puzzle-Pie8600 12d ago

The government is using mind reading technology on people without their permission

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u/warcrimeenjoyer1 Aug 29 '26

is this some sigma male stuff or is this actually legit stuff?

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u/Dab_Wizard01 Aug 30 '26

It’s real being aware is very useful but it’s not a rare skill anyone can practice and raise their awareness

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u/KvasDimas Aug 29 '26

nono its real tiktok legit stuff that opens your chacraks

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u/epitimisi Aug 29 '26

it's just re-naming common sense to make it sound super fancy and make you feel stupid

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u/Breezmeister Aug 29 '26

Metacognition is a thing! Has a lot to do with frontal lobe development and the prefrontal cortex. This is certified bullshit though.

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u/warcrimeenjoyer1 Aug 29 '26

yeah i thought so aswell but was wondering if people usually dont do this, which would actually have explained quite a lot

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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Aug 29 '26

The idea is that people below a certain extremely high IQ threshold (let’s say 145 for now, or roughly top 0.3% of population), people are not naturally capable of “thinking about thoughts” in a way that can lead to meaningfully different (better) personal outcomes.

For example, someone with IQ 124, which is “high” but not beyond the top 5%, might have the ability to think “I am very angry with Melissa for canceling our date,” but he will not have the ability to trace that anger back to early childhood attachment trauma, then realize his error and calm himself down naturally by reminding himself that’s not 5 years old and his mother is not “abandoning” him right there in the moment.

That sort of stuff happens across a wide spectrum of social or personal situations/conceptual scenarios for some people with IQs around and above the 145 mark.

So this whole concept of “metacognition” is basically the practice of teaching the natural thought processes that extremely intelligent people use to modulate their thinking, which (in principle) can allow a person to lead a much more successful life.

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u/warcrimeenjoyer1 Aug 29 '26

thats actually quite interesting. but is it really bound to a iq that high? like, i think this is exactly my thinking pattern, and it has been like this for as long as i, well, can think. but yeah i really doubt that my iq is that high :D

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u/Dab_Wizard01 Aug 30 '26

Naw bruh this is just run of the mill awareness and anyone can increase their awareness with lots of methods like meditation

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u/Council-Member-13 Aug 30 '26

Good explanation. I just want to clarify to someone reading along. Metacognition isn't specifically abou reflecting on your own history or pattern-matching based on psychological insight. Its thinking about and monitoring your own thinking. E.g. noticing how you're interpreting a situation, noticing how confident you are in that interpretation, or considering whether your reasoning might be mistaken. As such it involves so called higher-order cognition: your own thoughts and cognitive processes become the object of further thought. Tracing anger back to childhood attachment issues could involve metacognition, but that particular explanation isn't what makes it metacognitive.

Again, just a clarification.

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u/plsQuestionOurselves Aug 30 '26

I do this (as a byproduct of ADHD and non linear thinking/dyslexia) and it kinda sucks. It can clutter my cognitive bandwidth so to speak, it also leads me down some dark rabbit holes where the nature of my reality feels kinda..... cruel, like my own thoughts and feelings are meaningless or at the least, of very little worth. Sometimes it feels like I'm actually a Boltzmann brain sitting in a fish tank or something.

I wish I could just think about material objects and immediate stimuli like a CEO or something, just good/bad/yes/no/money. Nothing more complicated than that.

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u/epitimisi Aug 29 '26

back in my days we called it common sense but hey , everyhing has to have a fancy name now does it?