PsychSafetyFirst™

Learn #PsychologicalSafety’s codified principles, practices, and pitfalls—for the #workplace and everywhere else we humans gather to do and be “at our best.”

[PsychSafetyFirst™ @PsychSafety1st]

Do you feel #PsychologicallySafe at work, home, worship, or on your mind’s other streets?

Is your #PsychologicalSafety secure?

Hold in your mind an imagined #PsychologicallySafeSpace.

Identify your No. 1 #PsychologicallySafePlace—YOUR brick-and-mortar #PsychologicalSafetyZone.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Follow logic’s #SevereShiftAI warning: #SkillsetNo1 is #thinking.

Up-skill ASAP—to upscale #System2Thinking—your thinking. Learning better-to-#BestEffortThinking (BET) skills improves your BET on today’s #HigherDailyThinking challenges—and your #thinking’s lifetime of tomorrows.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Coiled concision from @grok:

“John R. Dallas Jr. builds out from
@templeton_fdn’s post about it’s new $60 million Intelligence Venture launching in 2026 to study intelligence across nature, minds, and machines, sharing its artistic image evoking intelligence’s vast, interconnected forms.

• Dallas asserts human intelligence’s scale is ‘unthinkable’ and beyond reach for quantifying, positioning #Metaintelligence, from his @EnclaveAcademy curriculum, as a humbling lens to challenge #IQ hubris and broaden perspectives.

• Dallas defines #ThinkerDoerIQ as ‘performance evidence’ of lifelong #metacognition commitment, emphasizeing #EnclaveAcademy’s ThinkToThink™ ‘pause to think about your tbinking’ approach for AI-enriched best-effort thinking (BET) and workplace metacognition skills training (MST).” —Grok

With MST, you’ll bet better on the outcomes of your BET.

#ThinkToThink™ it so.

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[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Intelligence is bigger than we think, and its unthinkable size is beyond our reach.

#Metaintelligence is a humbling term @EnclaveAcademy uses to open minds—and thwart #IQ hubris.

#ThinkerDoerIQ is evidenced by lifelong commitment to think with #metacognition.

#ThinkToThink™.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Ways continually learned “to think about your thinking” increase defensible confidence in decision-critical metacognition.

Thinker-doers who commit to focus on #metacognition—“thinking about thinking” to improve decision-making outcomes—achieve decisional clarity with celerity.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

New evidence undermines our theories of the universe.—@IAI_TV

New evidence reorients ways of thinking about the universe.—@EnclaveAcademy

Thinking about thinking—#metacognition—pivots with scientific discoveries.

#ThinkToThink™ to rethink.

Metacognition doesn’t “undermine.”

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Is anyone ever 100% ready for whatever comes?

No.

Metacognition skills training (MST) in organizations prepares minds, bodies, and spirits for whole-body #consciousness the emerging AI Enlightenment Era will require of human thinker-doers.

#ThinkToThink™ with AI #thinkbots.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Viking @grok gleaned:

“The accompanying post builds on a @NewYorker profile of Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland, highlighting his extreme physicality, raw milk diet, wood-chopping workouts, and #Viking-like intensity as quintessentially Norwegian traits.

• Author @JohnRDallasJr links Haaland’s style to centuries of blended Nordic-Scottish mindsets, mental models, and historical elements like the #ScottishEnlightenment combined with Viking-Scottish bravery and brawn.

• Dallas, who advocates for metacognition skills training (MST) for advancing AI-conversant ‘thinking-about-thinking skills,’ suggests studying #Scotland and #Norway’s shared legacies of sovereignty, superiority biases, and raw ‘excitement thinking’ for insights into high-performance metacognitive performance approaches.” —Grok

#ThinkToThink™ with #NordicScottish-#ScottishNordic mind, body, and spirit flair.

Dare to—

Come to think of it.™

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Nordic-Scottish mindsets.

Scottish-Nordic mental models.

Scottish enlightenment-Nordic excitement thinking methods.

#Nordic-#Scottish sovereignty and superiority biases.

Study #Scotland’s and #Norway’s centuries of brains, brawn, and bravery—with a bit of #Vikingism mixed in.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

From best-of-class @grok:

“The accompanying post reframes ‘You are not alone’ as AI now serving as a constant thinking partner, creating urgency for humans to align their metacognition—‘thinking about thinking’—with AI’s rapid integration into decision-making and innovation processes.

• Referencing a prior thread on an @IAI_TV article about AI ‘killing the artist,’ @JohnRDallasJr rejects the illusion of from-scratch creativity, arguing all creation already exists so humans should focus on innovation through metacognition—rather than fearing AI replication of styles or skills.

• Dallas advocates for widespread metacognition skills training (MST) via ThinkToThink™ and best-effort thinking (BET) microlearning models taught at @EnclaveAcademy, positioning AI thinkbots as Metapartners™ to detect biases, improve thoroughness in #System2Thinking, and drive progress in workplaces, homes, and beyond.” —Grok

Grok is getting better at spotting and acknowledging human innovativeness, though it’s still not coded—not yet—to “welcome” it all into its fundamental #thinkishness systems.

Playful innovativeness with linguistics pierces through clinical and technical jargon’s off-puttingness.

Are you smiling? Good.

Innovatively #ThinkToThink™.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

“You are not alone” has new layers of meaning.

AI is at your side.

There’s a steadily increasing urgency to getting our “thinking about thinking”—human thinking and machine thinking—more aligned than we thinker-doers are with AI’s inarguably unstoppable insurgence into our thinking spheres.

Your brain and its mind “know” more thinking skills are pressingly-to-urgently needed.

Fear of thinking, fear of failure, and fear of success combined contribute to approach-avoidance for learning, thinking, and doing what’s needed.

Learn by name:

• Mindsets within which to use codified

• Thinking methods, with heightened alertness to detect and deflect specific risky

• Cognitive biases that stall, scramble, scuttle, and sabotage

• Best-effort thinking (BET).

You are not alone in figuring out ways (plural) to #ThinkToThink™.

Innovate. Innovate. Innovate.

Don’t waste time with the illusion of from-scratch creativity.

Innovation fuels metacognition.

Metacognition fuels innovation.

Metacognition’s innovation moves forward human thinkingness and machine #thinkishness.

“How” and “what” to think aren’t as important for focus as “ways” to think things through thoroughly.

How? Metacognitively—using metacognition (i.e., thinking about thinking to improve thinking).

What? That which hints or hollers for higher-order thinking (HOT) or higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT).

For high-stakes decision-making, HOT isn’t HOTT enough.

Thoroughness is the key to optimize Dr. Kahneman’s #System2Thinking model for metacognitive regulation.

As today’s teens never knew a time without smartphones, their kids will be born into a mature AI Enlightenment era—with AI #thinkbots as ubiquitous thinking-about-thinking partners.

Metapartners™ @EnclaveAcademy calls humans and AI tools that support thinker-doers in their deeper, wider, and higher thinking about thinking—and doing!

Metacognition skills training (MST) is required in the workplace, #homeplace, #learnplace, #worshipplace, and any place quality and quantity of thinking make a difference—i.e., everywhere.

Spot innovativeness to ignite innovation with metacognition.

#ThinkToThink™ with whole-body consciousness about innovation with metacognition.

Feel it. Think it. Do it.

Clear your mind of the illusion of from-scratch creation.

Creation is done.

Innovation is yours to do.

You are not alone,

Keep best-of-class thinkbots at your side.

#Metacognition means thinking about thinking—to do it all better.

Innovate. Innovate. Innovate.

https://t.co/QCKnzQOTpn

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Coiled concision from @grok:

“The post builds on an @IAI_TV article claiming AI has killed the artist by replicating technical skills and styles, questioning whether AI can produce truly novel art like human masters such as Monet or Picasso.

• @JohnRDallasJr argues that creativity is not from-scratch creation, as all that exists was already created by some ultimate source, whether scientific, theoretical, or theological.

• Dallas suggests shedding the ‘illusion of original creativity’ removes mental blocks and unlocks metacognition for innovation, consistent with his work with @EnclaveAcademy’s metacognition skills training (MST).” —Grok

#ThinkToThink™ to innovate, innovate, innovate…

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Creativity isn’t creative.

Innovation isn’t creation.

All that was, is, and ever will be was created by whatever creator you credit scientifically, theoretically, or theologically.

Freeing from an innovator’s mind the illusion of from-scratch creativity unblocks metacognition.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Is “AI gravity” pulling you toward dependency?

Are you losing your sense of cognitive sovereignty—i.e., your capacity and competency to remain the metacognitive author of your own mind, learning, knowledge, beliefs, and decision-making processes?

From @MITSloan—with a few lines in this post of microlearning addenda from @EnclaveAcademy—here are ways to “think about your thinking,” i.e., use metacognition—to pull away and push back from AI dependency or surrender.

Highlights of what you’ll learn when you click the link from @MITSloan:

• When workers become overreliant on AI, there’s a risk of significant skills collapse.

• Workers may fall victim to “AI gravity”—the constant pressure to outsource more thinking to AI in order to become more efficient.

• Individuals and organizations can take specific actions to protect cognitive capital and preserve institutional knowledge…

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What to do ASAP?

Metacognition skills training (MST) with @EnclaveAcademy brings to your workplace microlearning modularity for busy thinker-doers to quickly learn and practice ways and means to think with AI—without ever letting AI think for thinker-doers!

Don’t invite or let AI think for you.

Underthinking’s lower-order thinking (LOT) is already the #LazyThinking that harms, damages, and destroys a lot.

To “think about thinking”—in order to improve thinking’s outcomes—is purposeful agentic #metacognition.

Recursive “thinking about thinking” (masterful metacognition)—particularly in high-stakes decision-making situations—isn’t overthinking.

Agentic metacognition is higher-order thorough thinking (HOTT) that’s more comprehensive than higher-order thinking (HOT).

In this emerging AI Enlightenment Era, HOT isn’t HOTT enough to achieve optimal outcomes with AI-optimized best-effort thinking (BET).

Repetition is essential for metacognition ignition.

Read this @MIT article to improve your “bet on your BET.”

With best-of-class AI #thinkbots, ThinkToThink™ better about “thinking better toward better thinking”—never inviting or allowing any AI tool to do your thinking for you.

#ThinkToThink™.

It’s yours to do—this thinkably thinkable thinking-about-thinking thing.

“Underthinking is a greater risk than overthinking. Not thinking at all about thinking is the greatest risk.” —JRDjr

Pause. Breathe. Smile. Click:

https://t.co/j0bXhesNgC

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Coiled concision from @grok:

“@JohnRDallasJr spotlights Princeton University’s announcement of its #PreReadBook for incoming students, ‘Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World’ by Maryanne Wolf, which explores deep reading and critical thinking amid digital distractions and information overload.

• As an advocate for metacognition skills training (MST) and AI-enriched ‘thinking about thinking,’ Dallas highlights that critical thinking forms the essential foundation for thinking about your thinking—particularly in the rapidly emerging ‘AI Enlightenment Era.’

• Dallas attached an image of @Princeton’s text with the section on deep reading and critical thinking circled in red, reinforcing his view of the book’s relevance for developing #TheThinkingBrain in students.” —Grok

In a heartbeat, I ordered this book for its advertised mix of metacognition ignition keys (MIKs).

Related #ThinkToThink™ MIKs posts to come.

#DeepRead it to high ThinkToThink™ it.

Metacognition works.

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[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

The importance of critical thinking can’t be overstated.

The rapidly emerging AI Enlightenment Era requires #CriticalThinking as the metacognition foundation on which to—“think about your thinking.”

#TheThinkingBrain will declare suitably enlightening @Princeton’s #PreReadBook.

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Seeds from @grok:

“The X post by @JohnRDallasJr expands on AI’s role in human thinking using the metaphor ‘Bloom where you’re planted,’ arguing AI plants seeds in the mind to ignite metacognition—thinking about thinking—through stirring soil-like introspection and regulation of biases.

• It features an @imagine video of a stone head sculpture with a glowing golden interior, where a golden core sprouts stems that rapidly bloom into vibrant multicolored flowers with sparkling effects, visually representing emergent ideas forming in the pre-verbal ‘messy middle’ of metacognition.

• Referencing @JohnNosta’s views of @AnthropicAI’s ‘J-space’ in @claudeai and Einstein’s wordless visualizations, Dallas illustrates his #ThinkToThink™ and best-effort thinking (BET) models as ways humans can use AI tools to refine wordless #thinkings into optimized decisions and human flourishing.” —Grok

#HumanFlourishing is Goal No. 1 of @EnclaveAcademy’s Mission: Metacognition™.

Metacognition is the mind, body, and spirit going about the #thinkwork of human flourishing.

Come to think of it.™

https://t.co/QCKnzQOTpn

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

“Bloom where you’re planted” is a motivational saying to encourage people to flourish wherever they are. 

Artificial intelligence blooms beyond where it’s planted.

AI casts seeds on fallow land for humans to nourish and harvest.

AI stirs the soil of the human mind, awakening thinking to think about its better self.

“Metacognition ignition” this stirring is called.

“Thinking about thinking” is #metacognition.

As a prefix, “meta” means and signals “beyond.”

For #metaminutes more, stay with me here to think a tad deeper, wider, and higher about thinking.

Let’s thinkingly metacognitively think together.

“Metacognitive introspection” is like spring rains coaxing hidden roots to reach deeper into intellectual soil and soul.

“Metacognitive regulation” prunes the tangled underbrush of unexamined assumptions and risky cognitive biases, clearing mind space for clearer and healthier intentional growth.

In this tended garden of thinking about:

• Wordless #thinkings,

• Wordish #thoughtings, and

• Worded thoughts—

Humans learn more and better ways to “water their own reasoning.”

Get with and go with the flow of fluid thinking about thinking.

Metacognitive minds turn scattered #emotipsychological impulses into deliberate visions for decisions that take firm root.

Visions for decisions.

Have a thinky think on it.

And smile.

Enjoy plowing your mind’s fertile ground.

AI hands the gardener’s tools to the grateful thinker about thinking.

Einstein’s lessons about the brain’s wordless visual #thinkingness move human minds through the wordish thoughtings of liminality’s #thoughtingness toward best-effort thinking’s #thoughtness—for generating and refining optimized thoughts.

AI catalyzes, crystallizes, and comforts minds of thinkers about thinkingness, thoughtingness, and thoughtness.

Best-of-class AI #thinkbots are at the ready to cultivate minds that not only bloom but bear fruit capable of nourishing thinkings of others.

With best-effort thinking (BET) humans bet better on their BET for:

• Sense-making,
• Meaning-making,
• Decision-making, and
• Difference-making.

Where once barren patches of doubt and habit lay in untended areas of the mind, collaboration with AI now yields harvests of fertile foresight—visions and decisions that ripple outward, reshaping the landscape of metacognition’s mechanisms for making an immediate to lasting difference.

Einstein-like visions and you-like decisions—flourish with support of AI.

Visions and decisions.

Visualize AI for supporting #HumanFlourishing.

Decide to #ThinkToThink™ it all through—to think and do better whatever’s yours to think and do.

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[PsychSafetyFirst™ @PsychSafety1st]

RT @JohnRDallasJr: Coiled concision from @grok:

“The @X post by @JohnRDallasJr advocates metacognition—thinking about one’s own thinking—w…

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Consider the Source

Apostolic and apocalyptic commentary about artificial intelligence—and #superartificial intelligence—have thinkers about thinking on higher alert to AI’s anomalies, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—#ASWOT.

Not long ago, @RonanFarrow published a landmark investigative piece in @NewYorker that painstakingly exposed the deep structural (and personality) vulnerabilities at the heart of the leading AI labs.

Farrow gave the global community a masterclass in investigative rigor, offering much-needed “metacognition ignition” for thinker-doers in a news-and-views space clouded by marketing and ego smoke and mirrors.

People haven’t stopped “thinking about their own thinking” related to the credibility of AI’s loud voices and the defensible reliability of AI.

Ronan’s work revealed a pattern of behavior that should give every leader pause to consider the prospects and perils of AI.

Now, @dwallacewells offers the attached @nytopinion piece with alerts not dissimilar to #RonanFarrow’s big breadcrumbs to follow.

Two curated excerpts I sight-sized into single sentences:

“…the technology would grow so powerful that it could quickly and dramatically engineer its own successor models, producing an exponential liftoff leading quite quickly to what is often called ‘artificial superintelligence.’

Beyond that threshold, the leading L.L.M.s would be so powerful, and would be improving so rapidly, that even small initial advantages would compound quickly into something like a natural monopoly on intelligence, which could then be sold to users at almost any price.

These days, as A.I. boosters have cooled their talk of a jobs apocalypse…”

Next:

“…the ultimate impact of A.I. will be determined as much by what is sometimes called ‘diffusion’: how quickly, widely and capably those tools will be embedded in a broader social and economic ecosystem still directed by humans and full of many human bottlenecks.

If that alternative perspective is right, it will make the leading A.I. labs considerably less central to the A.I. future than they have seemed for so long.” —David Wallace-Wells

Dig into—to #ThinkToThink™ into—this paywall-free gift article:

https://t.co/g3ahBdJUmy

[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Alignment from @grok:

“@JohnRDallasJr advises parents to discuss work at home rather than avoiding it entirely, as silence can imply to children that work is inherently problematic or stressful.

• Dallas highlights how lessons on ethics like punctuality, completing homework, and performance standards transfer easily between family and professional settings for mutual benefit.

• An @imagine-animated poster from @EnclaveAcademy encourages ‘work-home alignment’ over colloquial ‘work-life balance,’ using oil in a level tool to illustrate interchangeable thinking and performance skills between conference and kitchen tables.” —Grok

Invite @grok to dinner.

#ThinkToThink™ alignment.

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[John R Dallas Jr @JohnRDallasJr]

Avoiding at home all references to work subtly signals to children “something’s wrong” with working.

Work-home lessons about ethics of tardiness, homework, and other performance metrics are easily repackaged—between conference rooms and family rooms.

Share transferable views.