Monday, October 03, 2005
Define Metacognition: thinking about thinking.
Use in a sentence: Metacognition sucks.
I wanted to write something. I don't feel so good today. It's just one of those days that comes around every so often and you know the things that could change it are not going to happen and so you sit in this dull oblivion and decide to wait it out. Someone asks you how you're doing and because you don't know how to answer that question you say good/fine/bugger-off (whatever's appropriate) and then you go back to waiting. All your motivation and enthusiasm seems to have just bled away, and you can understand why, but it doesn't change the fact that you need it back. But then, you don't feel particularly enthusiastic about trying to get it back because, well, you're not feeling very motivated. Catch 22. You need the key to open the door but the key's on the other side of the locked door. There's something spectacularly clever about that.
Blah.
Use in a sentence: Metacognition sucks.
I wanted to write something. I don't feel so good today. It's just one of those days that comes around every so often and you know the things that could change it are not going to happen and so you sit in this dull oblivion and decide to wait it out. Someone asks you how you're doing and because you don't know how to answer that question you say good/fine/bugger-off (whatever's appropriate) and then you go back to waiting. All your motivation and enthusiasm seems to have just bled away, and you can understand why, but it doesn't change the fact that you need it back. But then, you don't feel particularly enthusiastic about trying to get it back because, well, you're not feeling very motivated. Catch 22. You need the key to open the door but the key's on the other side of the locked door. There's something spectacularly clever about that.
Blah.
