The Adventurer's Companion

Who controls you? Take the test – Change your life

The Companion — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:30:42 +0000

Everything under control? Who controls you? Who determines how you act and feel? Who really pulls your strings? Take the test below and find out… the results could make you see yourself and your behaviour in a new light.. and change your life for ever! Review the ten statements below. Give yourself a point for every thought or belief that roughly [...]

Change your thinking, Change your life!

The Companion — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:23:25 +0000

Introducing Metacognition If you think that your enjoyment and fulfilment in life is largely determined by what happens to you, then this series of four articles may be literally life-changing for you! In this quartet of articles we will explain and illustrate how control of our thinking represents the foundation for personal growth, freedom, and effective [...]

Metacognition – Keys to the Life Change Kingdom

The Companion — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:58:38 +0000

Part four of the Metacognition Quartet In the previous article we looked at a more complete and sophisticated model of metacognition to show that the concept can help us with far more than the basic tasks of learning and comprehension. At a more fundamental level it can help us to reduce our emotional and behavioural [...]

An holistic model of Metacognition for Life Adventurers

The Companion — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:13:25 +0000

Part three of the Metacognition quartet In the last article entitled Metacognition-Lite, we looked at a simplified view of metacognition – a lite version to help us understand how it works coupled with some practical examples of how it can help us. In this third article in the series, we will look at the complexities of [...]

Metacognition-Lite – What is Metacognition and how does it help us change?

The Companion — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:45:27 +0000

Part two of the Metacognition quartet In the first article on “big brains” and effective life change, we reviewed the evolution of thinking, and considered the radical possibility that thinking may not have been such a great evolutionary advance after all. In this second article, we will look at a simplified view of metacognition – a lite [...]

Big Brains – Poisoned Chalice or the Key to Effective Change?

The Companion — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:57:04 +0000

Part one of the Metacognition quartet Thinking is not the exclusive realm of homo-sapiens, but alone amongst life forms, we have evolved the extensive capacity for metacognition – also commonly known as “thinking about our thinking”. In this series of four articles, we will look at the nature of metacognition in order to understand why it plays [...]