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There's a version of you that is at the mercy of your own mind — carried along by whatever it produces, believing whatever it tells you, acting on whatever it generates, without ever quite stepping back to ask: is this my best thinking? Is this even thinking I have chosen?
Metacognition. The word comes from the Greek meta, meaning beyond or about, and cognition, meaning thinking. So metacognition, at its most literal, is thinking about thinking.
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How are you thinking? Not the content of your thoughts — but the process.
You spend a lot of time thinking. But when did you last think about how you think? 🧠
That's the question at the heart of the new episode of The Better Humans Project.
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We give enormous attention to what we think. We give almost none to how we think. And yet the how, the cognitive habits, biases, and assumptions running in the background, shapes every decision we make, every judgement we form, and every story we tell ourselves.
The new episode of The Better Humans Project Podcast is about agency: what it is, why it matters, and what the psychology says about how to have more of it.On YouTube and most good podcast platforms. Links in Bio.
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ABOUT THE BETTER HUMANS PROJECT
💥The Better Humans Project is a podcast about the ongoing work of becoming more self-aware, more present, and more fully alive — through psychology, science, philosophy, and honest conversation. Hosted by Greg Pfeiffer.
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“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Why does having agency matter? The short answer is: enormously, and in almost every direction that counts. The research on this is extensive and remarkably consistent.
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On YouTube and most good podcast platforms. Links in Bio.
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The new episode of The Better Humans Project Podcast is about agency: what it is, why it matters, and what the psychology says about how to have more of it.
#betterhumansproject #podcast #agency
Seligman's learned helplessness research: dogs subjected to unavoidable shocks later failed to escape — even when escape became possible. The same process operates in humans. We stop trying not because we can't — but because we've stopped believing it makes a difference.
Psychologists divided people into groups based on a coin toss.
Within minutes: in-group loyalty, out-group suspicion, differential resource allocation.
A coin toss. That's the tribal instinct.
New episode on tribalism in modern life - see bio
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Socrates and Albert Camus were separated by more than two thousand years yet neither of them equated a worthwhile life with a successful one in any conventional sense. Neither wealth, nor status, nor achievement, nor recognition made the cut as sufficient criteria. #podcast
Deficiency motivation is driven by what we lack: Growth motivation is driven by what we genuinely want to become. Most conventional life yardsticks are deficiency metrics. Even when you achieve them, they provide only temporary relief before the next inadequacy presents itself.
Philosopher Albert Camus argued that the most fundamental philosophical question is whether life is worth living at all — and that everything else follows from how we answer it. His answer, reached through a clear-eyed confrontation with the absurdity of existence, was yes.