Author: Lyndsey Getty
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Thought Awareness
Thought awareness is recognizing and understanding your thoughts, the patterns they follow, and the factors that influence them. It involves noticing what you think, identifying recurring patterns, understanding what drives your thinking, and recognizing how your thoughts influence your feelings, decisions, and actions. Thought awareness was formally defined and outlined during the creation of thought…
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Thought Literacy
Thought literacy is the skill of understanding and managing your thoughts so you can have a healthy relationship with your thoughts and make more intentional decisions. It involves developing the awareness to recognize how you think and the knowledge and skills to work with your thoughts intentionally. This includes identifying thought patterns, understanding what influences…
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Supportive Techniques
In the thought literacy framework, supportive techniques are activities or practices that help you manage your thoughts and build thought literacy. They can support your ability to understand, process, and work with your thoughts, but they are not a replacement for learning how to work with your thoughts directly. Examples include therapy, meditation, yoga, journaling,…
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Social Comparison
Social comparison is evaluating yourself, your abilities, or your life by comparing them to other people. These comparisons can help you understand yourself and recognize areas for growth, but they can also lead to unfair judgments about yourself when you overlook differences in circumstances, opportunities, or experiences.
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Comparative Thinking
Comparative thinking is identifying similarities and differences between people, objects, ideas, or situations to determine how they relate to one another. It can help you evaluate options, recognize patterns, and make decisions, but can also lead to unhelpful conclusions when comparisons overlook important differences or other factors.
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Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is a skill. It involves being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, behaviors, preferences, and values, and understanding how they influence your decisions and actions. Being self-aware helps you understand why you respond to situations the way you do and recognize how your internal experiences influence your decisions and actions.
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Self-Trust
Self-trust is relying on your judgment, feelings, and decisions when deciding what you think, want, and believe is right for you. It includes recognizing that you can make decisions, learn from mistakes, and reconsider your choices when you gain new information. You build self-trust through experience, reflection, and learning from your decisions (including mistakes).
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External Validation
External validation is the when you look to other people for approval, reassurance, or recognition to feel good about yourself, your choices, or your accomplishments. It’s not necessarily bad, and can help you feel accepted or confident, but relying on it too much can lead to your self-worth depending on other people’s opinions.
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Thought Management
Thought management is intentionally working with your thoughts by directing, evaluating, and processing them, identifying and filling gaps in knowledge, and choosing how to respond and engage with the environments that influence your thinking. Thought management was formally defined and outlined during the creation of thought literacy. Together with thought awareness, thought management forms the…
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Why Metacognition Isn’t Enough
Metacognition is an important concept. It involves using your cognition, including thoughts, memory, attention, and perception, in a strategic way to learn new information and complete tasks. You plan how to learn a complex topic. Remember how you previously troubleshooted a roadblock and apply what you learned when working toward a new goal. And evaluate…
