Metacognition
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Greetings, skeptic reader. Or perhaps you aren’t playing the role of the skeptic, and rather prefer openly receiving this information. I sincerely apologize if my meta-analyst play is confusing, says me, apologizer 3000. Honestly that’s not just apologizer; humorous reference personality seems to also be here. Okay, enough. I want to be clear as air now that I must make my message comprehensible for an audience, which may not yet be familiarized with the concept of “roleplay as principle”, which I recently discovered within myself even if it already was known somewhere out there already. I will be taking the identity of the concise redactor from this point on to ensure as many people understand this. Basically; everything is a performance. When you go to school, you’re the student, when you work, the worker, and so on. Bosses, criminals, presidents, psychologists, scientists, parents, siblings, friends, best friends, romantic partners… You would likely agree with me if I said they do have something to do with roles. The part where this realization turned into something deeper, was upon noticing that awareness lowers at times, one becomes comfortable with that dynamic and thereby doesn’t choose anymore. We can choose, and I think that’s where all the fun starts. That’s when I began seeing life as one big theatre scene with millions of actors, many of them not even conscious of their act. The potential is in playing, trolling, experimenting with other human beings and genuinely enjoying the richness of this experience we’ve been gifted; life. Now I’ll tell you a quick, simple exercise which can be done in less than 10 seconds, anytime. The purpose of such habit is to notice what you’re improvising as, anywhere, anytime. For example; you’re arguing with someone, you feel very angry and you’ve been locked out of your decisional rational thinking, this means you no longer are in control of what appearance you want to take, this means, that you’ve been sticked to this argument with glue, only that glue is consciousness and is all in your head. What role am I playing in this scenario? That’s the question. It unlocks your creative mind, you literally will be able to use more of your head, since this activates metacognitive processes, which naturally rises neurotransmitter levels and boost attention. Perhaps you get to the conclusion you were playing the role of the antagonist, the opposer, the angry. Imagine you took the decision in your mind to all of a sudden be 100% agreeing with them, even if you were shouting a minute ago. This genuinely could be hilarious, or confusing. Why take everything so seriously? You can always go back to disagreeing later. Why keep performing a role we’re not comfortable doing? Maybe because life is hard, and it goes beyond imagination, responsibilities that cannot be played with like this is a game. Perhaps because you took the role of the believer of the idea that life is serious. And right now what role am I playing? Perhaps the convincer. If you disagree with this text, you’re playing the role of the disagreeing person. You could decide to play the role of the passive listener and not say anything and leave after finishing reading. Or perhaps the role of the amazed freak, and begin to tell me how extremely cool and fantastic this text is and that I just solved world hunger and world war 3. Conclusion: Have fun!
