#CognitiveEthics
Is this a new term for you?
#EthicalMetacognition
Is this a new term for you?
If you humbly (!) acknowledge—possibly with an audible expression of an “Oh!”—when you are learning something new, your grateful brain, and its thankful mind, will remain insatiably curious and cautiously receptive.
When you instantly lie to yourself (or others) and pretend you already knew something you’re learning for the first time, you’re blocking your own
#MetacognitiveRegulation process and threatening your trustworthiness—deep in your own mind—and probably in the discerning minds of others.
Avoid fueling the
#ImposterSyndrome (i.e.,
#ImposterPhenomenon) by hubristically pretending to have already known something of value you are encountering for the first time.
#ThinkingHurts, neuroscientists tell us.
So,
#DefaultDishonesty may be your unconscious way of avoiding
#DeepThinking’s intermittent and ephemeral discomfort.
#FauxFamiliarity is
#CognitiveEgomania.
Such
#DefaultCognition phoniness has its ways of shutting off the brain’s receptors so the mind can’t welcome, process, and store new input and related insights.
Fuse
#MoralEngagement with
#CognitiveEngagement. Be
#IntellectuallyHonest with yourself and others.
Count as gifts—not entitlements—first-time lessons generously offered by your fellow
#rethinkers.
#IntellectualCuriosity
#IntellectualHumility
#IntellectualGenerosity
Now, put yourself to the
#PhronemophobiaTest. Test your
#ethics for signs of unconscious levels of
#FearOfThinking (
#FoT).
Honestly assess the number of hashtags (
#s) above that mark for exploration brand-new terms for you? Also count the number of offerings without hashtags.
How many “first times” did you count—with or without hashtags?
For your benefit and possibly to enlighten others, please post below at least the number of first-time lessons you gleaned from this exercise. It will do good-to-great things for your thinking’s thinking processes if you post below a 100% truthful number.
One? Five? Ten? More?
Will you? Can you?
Perhaps you already knew every concept and term above. That’s great.
Why great? By your believing you already knew 100% of whatever you’re seeing for the first time above secretly flags FOR YOU a deeply rooted resistance to learning with wholly truthful and mindful
#metacognition.
Respectfully, I suggest you may benefit from a chat or more with a psychotherapist, counselor, coach, or pastor about this very moment’s illusion of all-knowingness.
“The truth shall set you free”—of mental encumbrances, and keep your mind wide open for additional input.
Thank you. —JRDjr