Top Tweets for #ThinkFriends

Are you a bit disoriented in today’s upside-down grown-up world? You are not alone in your befuddlement. Revisit The Hundred Acre Wood—which is located no where near DC’s Rock Creek Park’s polluted waters. A.A. Milne’s Pooh Bear offers adults timeless wisdom. Piglet’s quiet courage, Tigger’s boundless joy, and Eeyore’s honest heart hold age-agnostic lessons about love, fear, morals, ethics, caring, perseverance, resiliency, and more—much more fodder for metacognition. Give your inner child a wee bit of a louder voice in your adult decision-making. Have a chat with your five year-old or older pre-adult self—maybe with your BFF stuffed animal chiming in. (Was it a Teddy Bear?) What “hot stoves” were you taught and self-taught not to touch? Are there physical or mental scars from those lessons? How were you trained to trust others? Did you? Do you? Which right and wrong childhood ways of thinking easily come to your adult mind? Do thoughts of “having your hand in a forbidden cookie jar” conjure more than instant gratification’s hunger for Oreos? In Pooh Corner, there are many Hunny Pots of interpretive and decisional navigation tips—perhaps starting with Pooh’s struggles with healthy weight management. For decision-making beyond cookies and honey, pull up and out your early “to do” lessons for metacognition’s action-dependent “thinking about your thinking”—and rethinking. Who woulda thunk recalling childlike and childish thinking gives adults so many pause points for checking and crosschecking our pre-decision metacognition (PDM) maturity and skills? Hear Pooh’s “think, think, think” as: • Think. • Think twice. • Think things through. • Think things through thoroughly. • Think things through thoroughly together—in and beyond The Hundred Acre Wood. Breathe. Smile. Think at your best. Come to think of it.™