There’s a lot of obvious things that are unnoticed. That brings me to my first tip for how to stay positive and confident. It’s called metacognition. Metacognition is simply thinking about thinking. Notice that you can do this. That’s really important. Because thinking about thinking actually put you in a higher level of choice and control over your own thinking. I’ve decided after all of these years in psychology that either we drive our thoughts or our thoughts drive us. Until you go to that metacognitive level, your thoughts will drive you. Think about it. Every time you do something, you had a thought that led you to that behavior. Is this true? Back in psychology school, we talked about the cognitive triad. What you think, what you feel, what you do. Those three things are so interrelated that they all affect and cause each other. What you think is…
