MetaCognition

Miss Took
2 min readJun 16, 2021

I don’t know if I can write well because I’m not sure I think well — or clearly.

Does one thought neatly follow another? Is there a natural flow — a direction to go? I don’t know.

Sometimes my thinking is circular, and I think my way around a topic or point, to find its boundaries — to push them, and test the idea.

But even going in a circle is going in a direction ↻, and even a circle can look like a straight line — it’s all a matter of perspective.

I’ve just got to get a better understanding of my approach, how I go about explaining, describing, challenging, imagining.

Should I think my way around an idea first, and find and define the boundaries, and then get into it and all of its parts?

Or start from within — with the multiplicity of its possible outlooks, then move out of the concept to compare and contrast it?

Or maybe I should begin at the middle and work my way out like the universe did, starting at the heart then spreading out, building complexity by discovering distinction, relationships, connections.

How do you think?

Moving Boundaries and Changing Dimensions
Josiah McElheny, Island Universe (2008)

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