Glossary
Metacognition
Awareness of your own thinking, together with the ability to monitor and regulate it.
In the book
Notice how you reached a conclusion, where you are uncertain and when you have slipped into accepting an answer without examining it. Then choose what to do next.
Introduced in chapter 2, “Check Your Seat”.
Related terms
- Automation bias: Giving automated advice undue weight, including accepting it when relevant evidence calls it into question.