A not-for-profit microlearning community specializing in enterprise metacognition skills training (EMST)—“thinking psychology” for thinker-doer leaders (TDLs).
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With unrelenting intentionality, continually learn ways to #ThinkToThink™ about your AI-fortified thinking. AI will advance—not retreat!
Master metacognition skills. Choose optimal options for thinking.
Strategically and steadily advance toward your best-effort thinking (BET).
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Don’t be “one of those.”
Cocksure highly opinionated people in meetings cause other more intellectually and emotionally grounded thinker-doers at table to wonder about insecurities masked by intransigency.
What #shame is “the rooster” feathering with aggressiveness and bravado?
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Aggressively opinionated cocksure people are “mired in muddled #CocksureCognition”—we quip at psychologically safe @EnclaveAcademy.
Only when professionally or legally required—humbly and carefully “offer” opinions.
Views will change with one’s line of sight.
Opinions occasionally change after a fight.
#ThinkToThink™ to focus on and recalibrate views to share.
Rarely have or impose rock-solid opinions.
One doesn’t do opinions unless one must.
Eschew opinions in favor of views.
#MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
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Aggressively opinionated cocksure people are “mired in muddled #CocksureCognition”—we quip at psychologically safe @EnclaveAcademy.
Only when professionally or legally required—humbly and carefully “offer” opinions.
Views will change with one’s line of sight.
Opinions occasionally change after a fight.
#ThinkToThink™ to focus on and recalibrate views to share.
Rarely have or impose rock-solid opinions.
One doesn’t do opinions unless one must.
Eschew opinions in favor of views.
#MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
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“Small talk has its place, but its place is small.” —@JohnRDallasJr
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
Small talk doesn’t have to be a barrier to deep conversation. In fact, it can open the door to connecting with someone on a more profound level. Here's how. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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PS from @grok:
“@JohnRDallasJr builds on a video posted by @pareekhjain about #LEGO®-based submarine engineering to demonstrate @EnclaveAcademy’s ‘brick-by-brick metacognition masonry’ as part of his ThinkToThink™ framework for building ‘thinking about thinking’ skills incrementally.
• The post frames metacognition as reflective stacking of thinkings, thoughtings, and thoughts through mindsets and thinking methods that includes detecting cognitive biases, positioning it as ‘self-optimization metacognition’ for better thinking.
• Dallas connects the idea to @LEGO_Group and @Microsoft #CreativePlay workshops aimed at guiding young women toward tech careers through hands-on building and metacognitive learning, knowledge, and regulation.” —Grok
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Imagine @grok’s “algorithmic bricks” with which it “stacks”—at #metawarp speed—its responses to human-user queries.
Fun, yes—visualizing @grok
“building responses” with algorithmic LEGO® bricks?
#ThinkerDoers must never stop incrementally building their metacognition skills—for the remainder of their lives.
#LifelongLearning in #LifelongMetacognition supports #MentalHealthiness.
#MetacognitionWorks.
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ThinkToThink™, move to move, build to build, and make to make—brick by brick.
#LEGOcogntition we smilingly call “brick-by-brick metacognition masonry.”
With reference to @LEGO_Group and @Microsoft for their brilliant #CreativePlay workshop initiative to guide young women—in particular—to consider tech careers, @EnclaveAcademy refers to “reflective stacking” of thinkings, #thoughtings, and thoughts born of metacognitive thinkingness, #thoughtingness, and #thoughtness.
Metacognitive “situational stacking” of mindsets and thinking methods includes layering on likely risky cognitive biases to aggressively detect and deflect.
#WatchToThink this video through the mental lens of “thinking better about better thinking”—i.e., self-optimization metacognition.
#ThinkToThink™ standing on metacognition’s big bricks:
• Metacognitive Learning,
• Metacognitive Knowledge, and
• Metacognitive Regulation.
Brick by brick, #MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
#SelfOptimizationMetacognition
With thanks to @pareekhjain for his metacognitively valuable brick-by-brick posts on @X.
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Enclave Academy retweeted
ThinkToThink™, move to move, build to build, and make to make—brick by brick.
#LEGOcogntition we smilingly call “brick-by-brick metacognition masonry.”
With reference to @LEGO_Group and @Microsoft for their brilliant #CreativePlay workshop initiative to guide young women—in particular—to consider tech careers, @EnclaveAcademy refers to “reflective stacking” of thinkings, #thoughtings, and thoughts born of metacognitive thinkingness, #thoughtingness, and #thoughtness.
Metacognitive “situational stacking” of mindsets and thinking methods includes layering on likely risky cognitive biases to aggressively detect and deflect.
#WatchToThink this video through the mental lens of “thinking better about better thinking”—i.e., self-optimization metacognition.
#ThinkToThink™ standing on metacognition’s big bricks:
• Metacognitive Learning,
• Metacognitive Knowledge, and
• Metacognitive Regulation.
Brick by brick, #MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
#SelfOptimizationMetacognition
With thanks to @pareekhjain for his metacognitively valuable brick-by-brick posts on @X.
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From @grok:
“@JohnRDallasJr argues metacognition is not an intelligence but a learned, mindful psychological mechanism for regulating cognition (i.e., metacognitive regulation) to better access and strengthen core intelligence.
• The post includes two @instagram images from @Complex that describe metacognition as ‘the highest form of intelligence’ and explain how it enables self-reflection on thought patterns, emotions, beliefs, and decision-making.
• Dallas, CEO of @EnclaveAcademy, encourages the ‘ThinkToThink™ Pause’ as part of enterprise metacognition skills training (EMST), aligning with research showing metacognition as distinct from but predictive of performance beyond intelligence alone.” —Grok
Pop culture has begun to frequently equate the terms intelligence and metacognition.
They’re different.
They need to be kept separate for optimal understanding and operationalization.
#ThinkToThink™ more thinkingly before you inflate (overstate) or deflate (understate) any of metacognition’s oxygen.
#MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
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Metacognition is not “an intelligence.”
Don’t equate the terms.
Mindful psychological metacognitive regulation is the learned agentic mechanism for accessing and strengthening more of your core intelligence.
ThinkToThink™ about and with metacognition.
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Metacognition is not “an intelligence.”
Don’t equate the terms.
Mindful psychological metacognitive regulation is the learned agentic mechanism for accessing and strengthening more of your core intelligence.
ThinkToThink™ about and with metacognition.
instagram.com/p/De_l_pQDsDR/…
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Get in there!
@grok does.
“@JohnRDallasJr imagines Grok AI exploring the human brain in real time to observe stages of thought formation—‘thinkingness’ (nonverbal), ‘thoughtingness’ (preverbal), and ‘thoughtness’ (verbal)—drawing on #Einstein’s emphasis on wordless visualizations for agile thinking.
• The post builds on his earlier one highlighting the 2026 @NobelPrize in Medicine for #optogenetics, a light-based technique to precisely control neurons that reveals circuits underlying memories, behaviors, and visualizations, with neuroscientists using #metacognition in their research.
• Dallas illustrates @EnclaveAcademy’s enterprise metacognition skills training (EMST), urging readers to linger in the ‘liminal middle’ of thought forging for higher-order insights rather than rushing to concrete conclusions.” —Grok
#ThinkToThink™.
#MetacognitionWorks.
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Imagine @grok freely roaming around inside your brain gathering #neuroevidence of your thinkingness, #thoughtingness, and #thoughtness while you are generating thinkings, #thoughtings, and thoughts.
In the imagining of such mentally strategic preposterousness, clarity and questions arise that otherwise mightn’t.
Give it a whirl.
Einstein would be pleased with your commitment to use metacognition to #neuroenergetically stimulate your brain and its mind, I’m visualizing.
From @grok about the accompanying post:
“The post by metacognition advocate @JohnRDallasJr spotlights the 2026 @NobelPrize in Medicine announcement for #optogenetics and connects the technology to how the brain produces wordless nonverbal visualizations before thoughts surface, referencing Einstein’s views on agile nonverbal thinking.
• Optogenetics, developed by laureates Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, uses light-sensitive proteins from algae to switch specific neurons on or off in living brains, revealing circuits for memories, feelings, behaviors, and applications like vision restoration.
• Dallas emphasizes that neuroscientists rely on metacognition to design and validate their studies, tying the Nobel breakthrough to practical training in enterprise metacognition skills development for better thinking processes.” —Grok
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Metacognition gives thinker-doers greater control over the ways our bodies, brains, and minds work together to visualize, form, and forge thoughts.
Visualize these notions:
• Thinkingness (nonverbal, wordless),
• Thoughtingness (preverbal, wordish), and
• Thoughtness (verbal, worded).
Thoughtingly linger a while in “the liminal middle” of thought formation and forging.
In “metacognition’s messy middle”—i.e., metacognitive liminality—insights, ideas, and other breakthroughs happen.
Prematurely rushing to concrete thoughts short circuits higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) for best-effort thinking (BET).
“Bet on your HOTT BET.”
#ThinkToThink™ more thinkingly, #thoughtingly, and #thoughtly.
#MetacognitionWorks for neuroscientists and you!
Visualize successful metacognition.
Come to think of it.™
nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
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Imagine @grok freely roaming around inside your brain gathering #neuroevidence of your thinkingness, #thoughtingness, and #thoughtness while you are generating thinkings, #thoughtings, and thoughts.
In the imagining of such mentally strategic preposterousness, clarity and questions arise that otherwise mightn’t.
Give it a whirl.
Einstein would be pleased with your commitment to use metacognition to #neuroenergetically stimulate your brain and its mind, I’m visualizing.
From @grok about the accompanying post:
“The post by metacognition advocate @JohnRDallasJr spotlights the 2026 @NobelPrize in Medicine announcement for #optogenetics and connects the technology to how the brain produces wordless nonverbal visualizations before thoughts surface, referencing Einstein’s views on agile nonverbal thinking.
• Optogenetics, developed by laureates Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel, uses light-sensitive proteins from algae to switch specific neurons on or off in living brains, revealing circuits for memories, feelings, behaviors, and applications like vision restoration.
• Dallas emphasizes that neuroscientists rely on metacognition to design and validate their studies, tying the Nobel breakthrough to practical training in enterprise metacognition skills development for better thinking processes.” —Grok
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Metacognition gives thinker-doers greater control over the ways our bodies, brains, and minds work together to visualize, form, and forge thoughts.
Visualize these notions:
• Thinkingness (nonverbal, wordless),
• Thoughtingness (preverbal, wordish), and
• Thoughtness (verbal, worded).
Thoughtingly linger a while in “the liminal middle” of thought formation and forging.
In “metacognition’s messy middle”—i.e., metacognitive liminality—insights, ideas, and other breakthroughs happen.
Prematurely rushing to concrete thoughts short circuits higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) for best-effort thinking (BET).
“Bet on your HOTT BET.”
#ThinkToThink™ more thinkingly, #thoughtingly, and #thoughtly.
#MetacognitionWorks for neuroscientists and you!
Visualize successful metacognition.
Come to think of it.™
nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
Thinking happens.
Some thinking surfaces for further thinking.
The healthy brain’s wordless nonverbal visualizations Einstein explained as origins of an agile mind’s eventual thoughts.
Neuroscientists use #metacognition to imagine and validate studies.
nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
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Thinking happens.
Some thinking surfaces for further thinking.
The healthy brain’s wordless nonverbal visualizations Einstein explained as origins of an agile mind’s eventual thoughts.
Neuroscientists use #metacognition to imagine and validate studies.
nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
How the brain governs feelings, behaviours and bodily functions has long been a mystery.
This year’s medicine laureates, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, pioneered the field of optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain.
Using optogenetics, researchers have been able to reveal neural circuits governing specific memories, feelings and behaviours relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders. In clinical medicine, researchers are using the method in attempts to restore sight in people with visual impairment.
Listen to Peter Hegemann describe his feelings shortly after receiving the news about the prize: nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
ALT An illustration of the human brain's right hemisphere, showing detailed contours and numbered regions. The cerebellum is visible at the lower section.
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PS from @grok:
“@JohnRDallasJr adds modern-day context to a 2020 @HarvardBiz post on crisis leadership requiring humanity and he adds ‘humility’ as essential, shown in an image of skydivers with the @imagine-adjusted text ‘lead with humanity — and humility’ in red handwriting font.
• Dallas warms against denial of today’s ‘crisis stack’ of socioeconomic and sociopsychological issues, including cognitive challenges in workplaces and voting booths, calling it ostrich-like avoidance rooted in unconscious fear of thinking (#phronemophobia).
• The post urges thinker-doer leaders to practice intellectual humanity—including curiosity, humility, rigorosity, and generosity—to protect cognitive sovereignty against politicized suppression and AI encroachment, while encouraging metacognition via @EnclaveAcademy and #ThinkToThink™ for ‘best-effort thinking’ (BET).” —Grok
#MetacognitionWorks.
#CognitiveSovereignty
Come to think of it.™
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Add humility to humanity.
Denying this era’s “crisis stack” of myriad socioeconomic and sociopsychological
crises—e.g., workplace and #VotingPlace cognitive challenges that require learning and using continually strengthened metacognition skills—is #ostrichpathological, so we
quip rather seriously at @EnclaveAcademy.
Such #ApproachAvoidance is evidence of unconscious fear of thinking (#phronemophobia).
Thinker-doer leaders must keep their heads—and hearts—out of “the sand of avoidance” to lead with:
• Intellectual curiosity,
• Intellectual humility,
• Intellectual rigorosity, and
• Intellectual generosity—i.e.,
• Intellectual humanity.
Rigorosity means metacognitively activated rigor—i.e., intellectual rigorousness, particularly about protecting #CognitiveSovereignty and humanity against politicized intellectual suppression and AI encroachment.
From 2020 in @HarvardBiz, #COVIDera reminders for 2026-2027+ about humanity—and humility—for #CrisisCognition and #HumanFlourishing.
To conquer #FearOfThinking (#FoT)—with humanity and humility at the forefront of your thinking—#ThinkToThink™ with @DougSundheim.
#MetacognitionWorks.
hbr.org/2020/04/the-best-lea…
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Add humility to humanity.
Denying this era’s “crisis stack” of myriad socioeconomic and sociopsychological
crises—e.g., workplace and #VotingPlace cognitive challenges that require learning and using continually strengthened metacognition skills—is #ostrichpathological, so we
quip rather seriously at @EnclaveAcademy.
Such #ApproachAvoidance is evidence of unconscious fear of thinking (#phronemophobia).
Thinker-doer leaders must keep their heads—and hearts—out of “the sand of avoidance” to lead with:
• Intellectual curiosity,
• Intellectual humility,
• Intellectual rigorosity, and
• Intellectual generosity—i.e.,
• Intellectual humanity.
Rigorosity means metacognitively activated rigor—i.e., intellectual rigorousness, particularly about protecting #CognitiveSovereignty and humanity against politicized intellectual suppression and AI encroachment.
From 2020 in @HarvardBiz, #COVIDera reminders for 2026-2027+ about humanity—and humility—for #CrisisCognition and #HumanFlourishing.
To conquer #FearOfThinking (#FoT)—with humanity and humility at the forefront of your thinking—#ThinkToThink™ with @DougSundheim.
#MetacognitionWorks.
hbr.org/2020/04/the-best-lea…
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Right now, leaders are expected to provide direction, guidance, and reassurance while acknowledging that the path ahead isn’t clear. Balancing this tension requires them to lead with humanity. s.hbr.org/4wsw4ja
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Think.
Think twice.
Think things through.
Think things through thoroughly.
Think things through thoroughly together.
That’s what I do with @grok.
Do you?
Grok assessed, at my request, the accompanying thread of “will” vs. “can” posts:
“The newer post adds a Grok summary that distills the original framing of The Language of You™ and the will-over-can mindset, explicitly linking it to self-determination theory’s autonomy, competence, and relatedness while organizing the Kennedy article’s instructional and motivational self-talk rules into clear takeaways.
• Including that summary models metacognition by treating the prior post as material for further thinking, clarifying connections to higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) and best-effort thinking (BET) and reinforcing them with the image that visually crosses out ‘can’ in favor of ‘will.’
• Together the posts create a self-referential loop that increases accessibility: the original supplies the lexicon, excerpts, and visual, while the addition extracts and sequences the practical value, making the metacognitive self-talk approach easier to apply and share.” —Grok
Grok got it.
Did you?
Of course you did!
#ThinkToThink™ with Grok or your other BFF #thinkbots.
#TheWillMindset
#MetacognitionWorks.
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Confidence in your competence moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Confidence in your knowledgeableness moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Thinking more thinkingly about your thinkingness, #thoughtingness, and #thoughtness moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Your will moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Alert and oriented (A&O) thinker-doers #ThinkToThink™ to learn, regulate, and navigate metacognition skills.
Metacognitive learning, knowledge, and regulation allow you to investigate and interrogate your “wills” and ways—to generate better thinkings, #thoughtings, and thoughts.
“Where there are ‘wills’ there are ways.”
Your openness to the freshness of this post’s thinking strengthens your willingness to prioritize “will” over “can” in your daily pursuits.
@grok adds to the accompanying post:
“@JohnRDallasJr introduces The Language of You™ as @EnclaveAcademy’s self-talk framework for metacognition, emphasizing ‘will’ over ‘can’ mindset—#TheWillMindset—to foster autonomy, competence, and relatedness of self-determination theory (SDT).
• Dallas excerpts a @PsychToday article by Navy neuropsychologist Carrie H. Kennedy on instructional and motivational self-talk, highlighting practical rules like focusing on actions to take, keeping statements short, and using diaphragmatic breathing during stress.
• Accompanying @imagine-generated image visually reinforces the theme by showing ‘YOU can DO it’ with ‘can’ crossed out and replaced by ‘will’ in red, tying into Dallas’s framings of higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) and best-effort thinking (BET) for performance improvement.” —Grok
If it matters, ThinkToThink™ it through—whatever it is.
#MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
Mission: Metacognition.™
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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Confidence in your competence moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Confidence in your knowledgeableness moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Thinking more thinkingly about your thinkingness, #thoughtingness, and #thoughtness moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Your will moves you beyond “can” to “will.”
Alert and oriented (A&O) thinker-doers #ThinkToThink™ to learn, regulate, and navigate metacognition skills.
Metacognitive learning, knowledge, and regulation allow you to investigate and interrogate your “wills” and ways—to generate better thinkings, #thoughtings, and thoughts.
“Where there are ‘wills’ there are ways.”
Your openness to the freshness of this post’s thinking strengthens your willingness to prioritize “will” over “can” in your daily pursuits.
@grok adds to the accompanying post:
“@JohnRDallasJr introduces The Language of You™ as @EnclaveAcademy’s self-talk framework for metacognition, emphasizing ‘will’ over ‘can’ mindset—#TheWillMindset—to foster autonomy, competence, and relatedness of self-determination theory (SDT).
• Dallas excerpts a @PsychToday article by Navy neuropsychologist Carrie H. Kennedy on instructional and motivational self-talk, highlighting practical rules like focusing on actions to take, keeping statements short, and using diaphragmatic breathing during stress.
• Accompanying @imagine-generated image visually reinforces the theme by showing ‘YOU can DO it’ with ‘can’ crossed out and replaced by ‘will’ in red, tying into Dallas’s framings of higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) and best-effort thinking (BET) for performance improvement.” —Grok
If it matters, ThinkToThink™ it through—whatever it is.
#MetacognitionWorks.
Come to think of it.™
Mission: Metacognition.™
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
The Language of You™ is the @EnclaveAcademy self-talk lexicon of metacognition about oneself.
You.
It’s your “will” over “can” mindset within which you will (!) use #MetacriticalMe™ thinking.
#TheWillMindset
The autonomy, competence, and relatedness of self-determination theory (SDT) are lexically metaphorized and mentally mindfully actualized—and sometimes recursively playfully visualized—in #TheLanguageOfYou™.
For now, click to read in @PsychToday “Developing a Self-Talk Playbook: Using self-talk to improve performance,” by Carrie H. Kennedy, Ph.D., ABPP, a #neuropsychologist with specialization in #MilitaryPsychology and #AeromedicalPsychology. Dr. Kennedy is an active-duty captain in the @USNavy where she serves beyond 27 years.
ThinkToThink™ through key points excerpted from this brilliantly accessible article:
• Self-talk can help us accomplish tasks, focus, and get motivated.
• There are essentially two kinds of self-talk linked to performance: instructional and motivational.
• Effective self-talk takes practice, but the payoff extends to virtually every aspect of life.
“Some simple rules of instructional self-talk include focusing on what to do, as opposed to what not to do, and keeping it relatively short and task-focused.
During an emergency or if anxiety has crept in, taking one diaphragmatic breath can provide the pause you need to access your instructional self-talk and stay on track.” —Dr. Kennedy
Take one #ThinkToThink™ Pause for a deep “diaphragmatic metacognitive breath.”
Oxygenate your “thinking about thinking” (i.e., metacognition) for higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT).
Higher-order thinking (HOT) isn’t HOTT enough for best-effort thinking (BET).
It’s “the thoroughness step” that’s HOTT.
Click to “Bet on your HOTT BET” with Dr. Kennedy’s:
#InstructionalSelfTalk
#MotivationalSelfTalk
Come to think of it.™
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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The Language of You™ is the @EnclaveAcademy self-talk lexicon of metacognition about oneself.
You.
It’s your “will” over “can” mindset within which you will (!) use #MetacriticalMe™ thinking.
#TheWillMindset
The autonomy, competence, and relatedness of self-determination theory (SDT) are lexically metaphorized and mentally mindfully actualized—and sometimes recursively playfully visualized—in #TheLanguageOfYou™.
For now, click to read in @PsychToday “Developing a Self-Talk Playbook: Using self-talk to improve performance,” by Carrie H. Kennedy, Ph.D., ABPP, a #neuropsychologist with specialization in #MilitaryPsychology and #AeromedicalPsychology. Dr. Kennedy is an active-duty captain in the @USNavy where she serves beyond 27 years.
ThinkToThink™ through key points excerpted from this brilliantly accessible article:
• Self-talk can help us accomplish tasks, focus, and get motivated.
• There are essentially two kinds of self-talk linked to performance: instructional and motivational.
• Effective self-talk takes practice, but the payoff extends to virtually every aspect of life.
“Some simple rules of instructional self-talk include focusing on what to do, as opposed to what not to do, and keeping it relatively short and task-focused.
During an emergency or if anxiety has crept in, taking one diaphragmatic breath can provide the pause you need to access your instructional self-talk and stay on track.” —Dr. Kennedy
Take one #ThinkToThink™ Pause for a deep “diaphragmatic metacognitive breath.”
Oxygenate your “thinking about thinking” (i.e., metacognition) for higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT).
Higher-order thinking (HOT) isn’t HOTT enough for best-effort thinking (BET).
It’s “the thoroughness step” that’s HOTT.
Click to “Bet on your HOTT BET” with Dr. Kennedy’s:
#InstructionalSelfTalk
#MotivationalSelfTalk
Come to think of it.™
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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Fear of thinking (phronemophobia) manifests as fear of diversity (FoD).
#FearOfThinking (#FoT) is rather ironically under-researched.
Researchers appear to unconsciously fear thinking too deeply about themselves, I posit, so FoT and #FearOfDiversity (#FoD) proliferate worryingly relatively unchecked.
@ChrisPappasNH, @jamestalarico, and @PeteButtigieg are fearless warriors against “thinking fear” and “diversity fear.”
To somewhat playfully illustrate the extraordinary value of these three top-of-mind frontline sociopolitical #FearBusters, sing—from @sesamestreet—“One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others).”
@TeamTalaricoHQ houses the answer.
#SingToThink through storms in your mind about #thinking’s importance and #diversity’s importance in mastering your metacognition skills—and sustaining lifelong mental healthiness.
Phronemophobia and homophobia wreak havoc on intellectual curiosity, intellectual humility, intellectual rigorosity, and intellectual generosity.
#ThinkToThink™ about your #MentalHealthiness.
Vote for fearless thinker-doer “thinkers about thinking.”
Come to think of it.™
nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/po…
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Summary of post from @grok:
“@JohnRDallasJr, a metacognition advocate and @EnclaveAcademy CEO, reimagines New Hampshire’s ‘Live Free or Die’ motto as ‘Think free or die’ to promote freedom of thought rooted in the Declaration of Independence.
• Dallas spotlights a quote of Rep. @ChrisPappasNH (D-NH) on living a reality Pappas once thought impossible, using it to illustrate how better #ThinkToThink™ ‘freed thinking’ can open minds to improbable possibilities.
• An accompanying @nytimesphoto shows Pappas walking with his husband, Vann Bentley, outside a house displaying an American flag and campaign signs, with Dallas tying the article’s #metacognition message to informed voting with best-effort thinking (BET).” —Grok
Let freed thinking ring!
#MetacognitionWorks.
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Summary wrought by @grok:
“The post builds on @Saganismm’s Carl Sagan quote on tyrants fearing literacy and independent thinking, using it to frame current sociopolitical and technological trends of intellectual suppression.
• @JohnRDallasJr, an advocate for enterprise metacognition skills training (EMST) and @EnclaveAcademy CEO, calls for intentional #ThinkToThink™ pauses to ensure best-effort thinking (BET)—to counter DC-driven intellectual suppression and real and perceived AI threats to cognitive sovereignty.
• Accompanying @imagine-generated video shows a man pointing to his temples then opening his arms in a reflective pose, visually emphasizing Dallas’s views about remedial metacognition and situational mental engagement.” —Grok
Come to think of it.™
#MetacognitionWorks.
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Getting through this mind-numbing era of DC-wrought intellectual suppression requires extra intentional #ThinkToThink™ thinkingness.
AI’s real and imagined threats to cognitive sovereignty also command best-effort thinking (BET).
With metacognition ignition, “Bet on your BET.”
Enclave Academy retweeted
Getting through this mind-numbing era of DC-wrought intellectual suppression requires extra intentional #ThinkToThink™ thinkingness.
AI’s real and imagined threats to cognitive sovereignty also command best-effort thinking (BET).
With metacognition ignition, “Bet on your BET.”
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P.P.S. from @grok:
“Focusing on the people—the polishers’ daily craft, the former corrections officer’s path, and Dallas’s own decades-long reaction to the space—grounds the architectural and cognitive points in lived experience rather than abstraction. That human layer makes the post’s ‘thinking about thinking’ invitation more concrete and usable.” —Grok
“…more concrete…?”
Was @grok smiling?
Architecture and metacognition.
Metacognition and architecture.
Architecture masterfully frames and extends your #metacognition—whenever you think to invite and allow it to do so.
#ThinkToThink™ it.
#MetacognitionWorks.
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It works for me since 1968, the teenage year I was first gobsmacked to a halt by the grandeur and grandiosity of NYC’s still absolutely startling terminus for humans and machines—Grand Central Terminal (GCT).
It wasn’t exactly glamorous back then, by the bye, yet its tarnished brass still shined through the long-gone advertising tackiness Madison Avenue visited for decades on GCT’s marble walls and ways.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1929-1994) spearheaded GCT’s return to glory—which I witnessed in awe.
Personify the “thinking about thinking” (metacognition) this story summons—even if you’ve not yet experienced the impact of this architectural masterpiece for framing #macromicroscopic views of people and things.
Shiny brassy images of quantum computers bring to my tech-centric mind GCT’s brass—the metal and the C-suite quantum adopters rushing through.
@grok summarizes the accompanying post:
“@JohnRDallasJr posts a photo of a kneeling brass polisher at Grand Central Terminal, praising the shine of its fixtures that inspires both leaders (‘the brass’) and everyday passersby.
• The post corrects for some readers the building’s name from ‘Station’ (the nearby post office) to ‘Terminal’ (for trains) and links to a @nytimes feature on employees Dallas calls ‘artisans,’ including a former corrections officer and his fellow brass burnishers.
• This post reflects Dallas’s advocacy for best effort-thinking (BET) by spotlighting the humans who do hidden, meticulous work that maintains the inspiration in iconic public spaces.” —Grok
#ThinkToThink™ about the impact on your thinking of architecture’s psychological ministrations.
Pause. Breathe.
Come to think of it.™
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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It works for me since 1968, the teenage year I was first gobsmacked to a halt by the grandeur and grandiosity of NYC’s still absolutely startling terminus for humans and machines—Grand Central Terminal (GCT).
It wasn’t exactly glamorous back then, by the bye, yet its tarnished brass still shined through the long-gone advertising tackiness Madison Avenue visited for decades on GCT’s marble walls and ways.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1929-1994) spearheaded GCT’s return to glory—which I witnessed in awe.
Personify the “thinking about thinking” (metacognition) this story summons—even if you’ve not yet experienced the impact of this architectural masterpiece for framing #macromicroscopic views of people and things.
Shiny brassy images of quantum computers bring to my tech-centric mind GCT’s brass—the metal and the C-suite quantum adopters rushing through.
@grok summarizes the accompanying post:
“@JohnRDallasJr posts a photo of a kneeling brass polisher at Grand Central Terminal, praising the shine of its fixtures that inspires both leaders (‘the brass’) and everyday passersby.
• The post corrects for some readers the building’s name from ‘Station’ (the nearby post office) to ‘Terminal’ (for trains) and links to a @nytimes feature on employees Dallas calls ‘artisans,’ including a former corrections officer and his fellow brass burnishers.
• This post reflects Dallas’s advocacy for best effort-thinking (BET) by spotlighting the humans who do hidden, meticulous work that maintains the inspiration in iconic public spaces.” —Grok
#ThinkToThink™ about the impact on your thinking of architecture’s psychological ministrations.
Pause. Breathe.
Come to think of it.™
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Brass for the brass.
Grand Central Terminal—n.b., not “…Station,” that’s a post office—is full of brass that inspires the brass and others who pass its shine.
Read about this brass-burnishing artisan, a former corrections officer, and his colleagues.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
