John R Dallas Jr
@JohnRDallasJr
Thinker-doers, pause here—with AI #thinkbots and me—to ThinkToThink™. | A metacognition strategist, facilitator, coach, speaker, author… | CEO, @EnclaveAcademy.
Metacognition—thinking about thinking—represents a beckoning frontier for organizational development. For an increasingly #AI-infused business landscape, organizations must create and nurture psychologically safe work environments for humans to do their #BestEffortThinking (BET).
An intellectually persistent PS from @grok: “The post by John R. Dallas Jr. critiques the notion of ‘intellectual consistency’ in politics, drawing on cognitive dissonance research from Leon Festinger's 1957 study, which showed people adjust beliefs to reduce mental discomfort,…
Intellectual consistency? “…Republicans ‘have been intellectually consistent the entire time….” reads a cognitively dissonant quote in an article in @nytimes I’d rather not honor with its hyperlink. (The @nytpolitics reporting is excellent, per usual; its core subject,…
Intellectual consistency? “…Republicans ‘have been intellectually consistent the entire time….” reads a cognitively dissonant quote in an article in @nytimes I’d rather not honor with its hyperlink. (The @nytpolitics reporting is excellent, per usual; its core subject,…
Building on a post from @Book_therapy223: “John R. Dallas Jr. highlights metacognition—thinking about thinking—as a skill that shapes conscious thoughts, supported by a 2023 study from the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience showing metacognitive training improves decision-making…
You are a production of your learned ways for “thinking about your thinking.” By a zeptosecond or longer, unconscious and conscious thinking precedes thought. Thinking comes before “thoughting.” Work on your thinking to improve your thoughts. Metacognition is your superpower.
You are a production of your learned ways for “thinking about your thinking.” By a zeptosecond or longer, unconscious and conscious thinking precedes thought. Thinking comes before “thoughting.” Work on your thinking to improve your thoughts. Metacognition is your superpower.
You're the product of your thoughts, choices, and habits
With @grok’s additions, pause. #ThinkToThink™. “John R. Dallas Jr. draws on @DrBenLaker’s @Forbes article (July 17, 2025), which cites a 2019 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology showing that environments punishing failure reduce cognitive flexibility by 34%,…
“Humans have to choose to grow. That choice becomes harder in environments shaped by fear, pressure and control. And when companies preach agility but punish failure, they train people to survive, not expand.” —@DrBenLaker From “What A True Growth Mindset Looks Like In The Age…
“Humans have to choose to grow. That choice becomes harder in environments shaped by fear, pressure and control. And when companies preach agility but punish failure, they train people to survive, not expand.” —@DrBenLaker From “What A True Growth Mindset Looks Like In The Age…
It takes a lot to knock my Argyle socks off. @perplexity_ai’s PRO has me barefoot in grateful amazement. The thinking-about-thinking metacognition work I’m doing—with research-data support from @AskPerplexity—is exceeding any expectations I could have had. g2a.com/perplexity-pro…
In @EnclaveAcademy’s proprietary #Medicognition™ Program’s microlearning modules, we explore why patients need to learn physician-like ways of “thinking about thinking” (metacognition) to strengthen, protect, and sustain their physical and mental health. @grok and other…
Do no harm? Some #physicians “gaslight” and “ghost” patients. “Physician, heal thyself”—of gaslightitis and ghostmonia. Particularly likely to think and behave so unprofessionally are doctors surrounded by sycophants who exacerbate—with their feigned god-like…
Do no harm? Some #physicians “gaslight” and “ghost” patients. “Physician, heal thyself”—of gaslightitis and ghostmonia. Particularly likely to think and behave so unprofessionally are doctors surrounded by sycophants who exacerbate—with their feigned god-like…
“Aristotle, Einstein & Kahneman,” the podcast. Imagine these three Supermetacognators here today to interpret for us the USA’s paradoxical DC-centered meltdown and markdown of human intelligence and higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) skills—while billionaires build, boast…
Pause to ThinkToThink™ about your education about learning itself—not yet about your accrued-to-date other knowledge. To optimize what you’ve learned so far about learning, and plan to learn for the rest of your life’s time on your mind’s sprawling and verdant cognitive campus,…
A more detailed flight plan from #Grok4’s cognitive control tower: “John R. Dallas Jr. uses a superhero-themed image of #Snoopy from @snoopyb047 to symbolize his assessment of @JohnNosta’s thinking, aligning with a 2021 study from the Journal of Creative Behavior that links…
Superthinker @JohnNosta has a learner’s sense of humor. He flies through the night into the dawn’s early light with humility—not hubris. He saves the day with vital curiosity, not constricting absolute conclusions. He rescues “thinkers in danger” with generosity, not superiority.
Superthinker @JohnNosta has a learner’s sense of humor. He flies through the night into the dawn’s early light with humility—not hubris. He saves the day with vital curiosity, not constricting absolute conclusions. He rescues “thinkers in danger” with generosity, not superiority.
Humility’s mental agility allows thinkers like @JohnNosta to encourage his fellow metathinkers to have some fun, poke some fun, and risk some fun as we navigate the sometimes not-so-fun messycognition within which we aim toward mindful metacognition’s best-effort thinking (BET).
Pause to ThinkToThink™ about your education about learning itself—not yet about your accrued-to-date other knowledge. To optimize what you’ve learned so far about learning, and plan to learn for the rest of your life’s time on your mind’s sprawling and verdant cognitive campus,…