Video by jun_yuh

According to cognitive psychology, one of the strongest predictors of success isn't your IQ, but it's a skill that almost nobody builds. It's called metacognition. This is your ability to think about your own thinking, and most people never actually do this. Something happens to them, they immediately feel something, and then they react. They're run by their own thoughts and

emotions as life is happening to them. Metacognition is stepping outside of that moment and making sense of why you do what you do. And that ability to make sense of things is literally the highest form of intelligence that I know of. Just think about who we call geniuses in music, in art, in science.

Every one of them are doing the exact same thing. They're taking the chaos around them and finding meaning in it. And the oldest name that humans have for being able to sense the patterns nobody else can see is a story. So when you tell your story, you're not just making content. you're engaging in the highest order of thinking a person can do.

That's what my storytelling content challenge is built on. Learning to step back, think about your own story, and training the one skill underneath all of it, your metacognition. If you want to join the 7,000 other people that are now on the wait list, comment brain and I'll send you an invite.