Metacognition or "self- knowing" includes the following aspects of understanding our "learning" selves:
Knowing our learning "style" and how we learn best in different learning situations.
Our recognition of differences in learning tasks and our ability to match the appropriate learning strategy to the task.
Our ability to monitor whether we are understanding and learning in a given situation or during the performance or a task.
When we know that we do not understand, recognizing the problem and identifying a different strategy that will be more appropriate to the learning situation.
Recently I read an advertisement that said, “Be different. Be yourself.” It reminded me of a story I once heard about a lion who had been separated from his parents at birth. He grew up in a flock of sheep. Because the cub believed himself to be a sheep, he behaved like one. He was a lion in a sheep-trance.
The story of the lion is a bit like many of our stories. We too are often in a trance. We too seem to have forgotten who we really are. And because of this mistake, we have identified ourselves with different images and ideas. We have put on masks and have actually begun to believe that we are these masks. Of course it is impossible to be happy if you are a lion and live like a sheep. The secret of getting to know yourself is that there is something inside you that is totally different from what you pretend to be.
“The only person who sets the limits to what you can do is yourself”
Knowing our learning "style" and how we learn best in different learning situations.
Our recognition of differences in learning tasks and our ability to match the appropriate learning strategy to the task.
Our ability to monitor whether we are understanding and learning in a given situation or during the performance or a task.
When we know that we do not understand, recognizing the problem and identifying a different strategy that will be more appropriate to the learning situation.
Recently I read an advertisement that said, “Be different. Be yourself.” It reminded me of a story I once heard about a lion who had been separated from his parents at birth. He grew up in a flock of sheep. Because the cub believed himself to be a sheep, he behaved like one. He was a lion in a sheep-trance.
The story of the lion is a bit like many of our stories. We too are often in a trance. We too seem to have forgotten who we really are. And because of this mistake, we have identified ourselves with different images and ideas. We have put on masks and have actually begun to believe that we are these masks. Of course it is impossible to be happy if you are a lion and live like a sheep. The secret of getting to know yourself is that there is something inside you that is totally different from what you pretend to be.
“The only person who sets the limits to what you can do is yourself”
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