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"Metacognition" means thinking about thinking. "Metacognitive strategies" enable people to apply attention management to new learning tasks, a higher-order form of cognition in which the thinker takes over active control of cognitive processes. It sounds dizzying, but reflective awareness of one's own thinking processes is the fundamental mind-tool, useful in mastering higher-order methodologies. Paying attention to their own attention has had a payoff for meditators for thousands of years, and modern neuroscientific research confirms the claims of meditative disciplines that the mind can be used to master the mind."

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