The field of metacognition is well known for the central factors in our performance:
self-awareness, emotional intelligence, self-regulation, and social awareness.
Since its inception in 1979, approaches have included mindfulness, applied therapies, medicines, screen time, meditation, and more.
However, experts point to an urgent need: Metacognitive and Personalized Engineering—where the journey toward metacognition is a structured and individually measurable process. We move from management to the development of our cognitive capabilities.
With the acceleration of human-AI interactions, "toolkit" have become more of a placebo in their abstract criteria. They face barriers to meeting demands for breakthroughs in human originality, analytical awareness, and strategies.
While studies point to the drastic impact on the functional middle class and its unintended consequences, metacognition has become a field more inclined to social comfort than a science to human evolution policies. Coping and palliative tools are valuable, but usually we see they are falling into "the pursuit of quality of life," just as we see in "the pursuit of happiness."
Although counterintuitive, the direct pursuit of quality of life is not the answer to advancement in cognitive performance or to the well-being of societies. In fact, this objective impulse is one of the reasons for the malaise we are experiencing: a "Hyper-Hydrated Society."
Beyond the worrying picture of AI's significant workforce cuts, we see an even more alarming scenario: the functional middle class is the oil in the engine of an operating society. If we allow it to shrink beyond its optimal structure, AI's great maestros will feel the technical loss of their orchestra—affecting global audiences.
The ThinkMETA book offers a democratic path equipping everyone to optimize their synaptic plasticity to think in an original, realistic, and strategic way. This helps central leaders, in turn, understand and leverage the implications of a cognitively agile society.
The METAP4 method is inspired by the 4Ps of medicine. It offers practical scaffolds for the “reinforcing loops” in the brain, responsible for the exponential growth – reaching ThinkMETA consciousness: elevated state of thought for the mutual and ethical evolution of Humans-AI and other intelligences.
