What to write...what to write...OH HEY!!! Look at that I wrote something! Now what else can I write about? Hmmm...What does metacognition even mean? Let's take a look see. According to dictionary.com it means, "awareness and understanding one's thinking and cognitive processes; thinking about thinking". Hmmm "thinking about thinking", I like that. I sometimes catch myself thinking about thinking. I suddenly become concientious about the fact that I'm thinking and I start to think about my thinking. Like right now I couldn't come up with a topic so I found myself just thinking about the thoughts going through my head.
BOOM!!! You just witnessed my thought process in action. The process of writing this blog unfolded in front of your eyes. The corolation between my thoughts and this work were direct (besides the time it took to type it). The reason I wrote about writing this entry is because I could not come up with a good example of how my brain worked, so I decided to show you directly. The things I like about my thinking include: being able to think on my feet, choosing a subject to think about, and being able to maintain a long train of thought. Some things I don't like are: I can't always put my thoughts into words, if I lose my train of thought I can get frustrated and then I can only focus on how I can't remember my previous thought. What was I talking about? AWWW shucks, I forgot! oh wait, I typed it. Hold on..."things I don't like...blah blah blah". OK got it.
Another thing is I still don't understand how I think. That's actually something I've been trying to figure out for awhile. The only thing I can conclude is that there are patterns within my thinking and that those patterns must be the basis of certain thoughts. I don't know, I'm not sure. That's just a theory of mine. I think it's true. I think.
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I really like the way you formatted this blog. It really got me thinking about you thinking about your thinking.. thinking? See, now I'm going in circles too. You've got a good point about not understanding how you think because I think none of us really do understand it: we just... THINK. I've noticed that this also comes out in your writing here. You just typed and typed what came to your head, then wrote about it. I like that.
ReplyDeleteDear George, I must say that I really like this blog you have got here. I like the way that you just took a thought and went with it, and kept going, and going, and going...Any who, the way that you come up with things to write is really similar to my writing process, except I don't actually write what I am thinking. So in the end, I must say that I enjoy this fine piece of literature and look forward to reading it again.
ReplyDeleteLove your dear friend, mikefhumanities. xoxo