“Many of us are walking around with broken #MentalModels. Many of us go through life with false assumptions about how the world works.” —@nytdavidbrooks To #DavidBrooks’s ego-piercing questions below and others posed within this gift link, I answered “Yes!” to 100% of them, long before I saw his irritatingly insightful and painfully perplexing brilliant list. Yes, 100%. Q: “If the #Democrats nominated a woman to run for president, would you expect her to do better among female voters than the guy who ran in her place four years before?” A: Yes. Wouldn’t you? Q: “If the Democrats nominated a Black woman to run for president, would you expect her to do better among Black voters than the white candidate who ran in her place four years before?” A: Yes. Wouldn’t you? Q: “If the #Republicans nominated a guy who ran on mass deportation and consistently said horrible things about #Latino immigrants, would you expect him to do worse among Latino voters over time?” A: Yes. Wouldn’t you? Q: “If the Democrats nominated a vibrant Black woman who was the subject of a million brat memes, would you expect her to do better among #YoungVoters than the old white guy who ran before her?” A: Yes. Wouldn’t you? Wrong we were. Wronged we are. With his formidable metacognitive learning, metacognitive knowledge, and metacognitive regulation, and his insatiable intellectual curiosity, comforting intellectual humility, and limitless intellectual generosity, Mr. Brooks moves us through the metaphysics of metacognition related to the darkly decisive election of the #ThinkerInChief-Elect. Carefully read, please, excerpts from this “gift article” which respectfully I broke into bitesize sentences for thinkability: “Why were so many of our expectations wrong? …we all walk around with mental models of reality in our heads. Our mental models help us make sense of the buzzing, blooming confusion of the world. Our mental models help us anticipate what’s about to happen. Our mental models guide us as we make decisions about how to get the results we want.” And: “Where did we get our current models? …we get models from our experience, our peers, the educational system, the media, and popular culture.” @AdamMGrant might say this article and my adapted recitation thereof—and red-faced confession thereto—call us to “climb down from Mt. Stupid.” n.b., I did. Many of us are now jumping off of Mt. Stupefied into a pool of thick goo (slime?) that cognitively cushions our falls. This sticky stuff won’t easily—if ever—wash off of the wounds we sustained from the near-fetal position #MoralInjury inflicted on our minds, bodies, hearts, and souls. Please click to read in its entirety this interactive metacognition map David Brooks sketches for us. It will illuminate with warning alarms your mind’s dashboard. Note well the flashing traffic arrows pointing us away from the dangerous cliffs, mud slides, and brushfires of Mt. Certainty. —JRDjr nytimes.com/2024/11/14/opini…

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