The most effective, most creative problem solvers engage in a process of meta-thinking, or "thing about the thinking." Meta-thinking means that you are aware of how you are thinking as you are doing the thinking. Meta-thinkers engage in continual dialogue of testing, stretching, criticizing, and redirecting their thought processes.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Meta-thinking
From "101 Things I Learned in Architecture School":
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Isn't that how we all do it?
True, true, not suggesting otherwise. It was more a note to myself as I've been thinking about how I approach research tasks, how I take notes, etc.
It's also known as "philosophy".
;-)
Post a Comment