Part four of the Metacognition Quartet
In the previous article we looked at a more complete and sophisticated model of metacognition to show that the concept can help us with far more than the basic tasks of learning and comprehension. At a more fundamental level it can help us to reduce our emotional and behavioural blocks to effective movement towards our life goals.
In this fourth and final article we will clarify why metacognition really does hold the key to effective life change.
Keys to the Realm
The golden thread running through this quartet of articles has been the true gift of our “big brains” which is summed up in a quote by Viktor Frankl – writer, psychiatrist, founder of logotherapy, and survivor of Auswitsch.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom”.
Metacognition provides us with the key to unlocking the power of this space between events and our reaction to them. Look at the picture below which helps to explain the growth and freedom to which Frankl refers to. Notice how our model of metacognition from the previous article has been merged with Frankl’s concepts and terminology.
