Definition
Metacognition
The deliberate practice of thinking about how you're thinking: what cognitive work to keep in your brain, what to outsource to AI, and — crucially — what questions are even worth asking. In an AI-native workflow, metacognition is the foundational skill. When you can get an answer to any question in two seconds, the scarce capability isn't answering; it's knowing which questions to ask and which thinking to preserve as a human function. Most company AI training covers prompting; almost none covers metacognition.
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