Brian uses a fancy word to talk about critical thinking in your life and business.

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Metacognition and your business.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today I want to talk about metacognition, which is basically the science of, you know, thinking about your thinking, okay. I love this topic, it's one of my most favorite things to talk about is something having to do with our thinking.

And it all starts with us thinking about what we're thinking, not about what we're thinking, but thinking about our thinking or itself, thinking about the thinking process, thinking about how we think, why we think, and everything around that idea.

This is the most some of the most fascinating things that I've ever thought about. And considered and actually made some of the largest changes of my life based on the concept of metacognition.

Now I've never, honestly, I've never used the term metacognition, I think I may have looked at it once when I was taking psychology classes in college but forgot about it.

And just recently, I was looking at things all about thinking about your thinking, and that term came up. So I thought I thought that was interesting.

Besides the term itself, this is something that gets brought up a lot by Dan Sullivan.

If you ever listened to Dan Sullivan, you could find him on a whole lot of podcasts out there, including one of my favorites. So, Welcome To Cloudlandia, this was the one that was that's hosted with Dean Jackson.

It was also previously called, The Joy of Procrastination.

I've discussed it before, Dan Sullivan is the one that heads up that he's both the creator and the lead mind over at Strategic Coach, where they talk a lot about thinking and stepping back and looking at why we do the things we do and how we can make slight tweaks to be able to create different results in our life.

And this is another thing that came into my mind when I was going back and looking at this book, Keep Going. I've talked about this one before previously, keep going by Austin Lleon, Awesome book.

I love Austin's books, they're simple, they're straightforward, very little to read on each page.

So you can make a whole lot of progress quickly and this the idea that he brings up, I don't always agree with every last idea in here. But they're definitely causing you to think about what you're thinking.

This particular page I wanted to bring your attention to, he says pay attention to what you pay attention to. It's really kind of a microcosm of thinking about your thinking. And I really liked what he says here, I wonder I wanted to read some of this for you.

He says your attention is one of the most valuable things you possess, which is why everyone wants to steal it from you. First, you must protect it. And then you must point it in the right direction.

As they say in the movies, careful where you point that thing. What you choose to pay attention to is the stuff your life and work will be made of my experience is what I agree to attend to psychologist William James wrote in 1890, only those things which I notice shaped my mind.

We pay attention to the things we really care about. But sometimes what we really care about is hidden from us.

I keep a daily diary for many reasons. But the main one is that it helps me pay attention to my life,