The book implicating psychological education offers an understanding of personal development, cognitive neuroscience of understanding one’s own thought process or metacognitive patterns leading to our stimulus to what we think.
Through his book, ‘Know Thyself’, Stephen Fleming demonstrates the crucial importance of developing self-awareness to cope up with crucial issues in life such as grave societal concerns and uncertainties, decisions making etc.
The readers can inculcate a better understanding of metacognitive processes that can be turned into advantage, to foster accurate and informed judgments. It can act as a guide to self-awareness amidst the growing technological advancement of artificial intelligence and other technological innovations involving neural networks that are quickly aligning with the process of how we think, speak, and act.
In the present day world, amidst the plethora of technology, there still exists one crucial quality that sets humans apart from machines which is the capacity for self-awareness.
In this book ‘Know Thyself’ cognitive neuroscientist Stephen M. Fleming brings up the basic principles of metacognition, a thought process involving self awareness.
The book supports the genres of psychology, personal development, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, artificial intelligence and semantics, education psychology,computer science,biology, self help and philosophy.
The book acts as a guide to the reader in understanding how metacognitive processes can help us think better, make sharper decisions, and avoid critical errors.
The author takes the readers on a journey into what it means to be a being that knows itself, and, as a consequence, can contemplate the self inside others.
In the contemporary world of exceptional technological resonance, this capacity for self-awareness is a field of neuroscientific study in its own right, the field of metacognition.
Understanding metacognitive processes can act as a pathway to guide a person towards better thinking, right decision making, and avoiding critical fuss.
The book portrays the science of self-awareness as the metacognition, or the ability to think about our own thinking involving fragile, wonderful and peculiar features of the human mind.
