I was told a story recently about a startup in Silicon Valley. The founder had a singular vision. The office smelt like cold brew. There were colorful post-it notes everywhere. All of the staff were trained in a very specific creative problem-solving process. They executed it flawlessly and the result was their unicorn, a billiondoll idea that changed the world. Now, many of you might have an idea of the organization I'm talking about or perhaps you've heard this story before and all of you would be correct ...

Today I want to present some ideas about um metacognition because I think uh that um this um subject is very very interesting but also very very useful in uh our academic and uh fields and not only uh The title like a question as a question is uh why do we need um to develop our metacognitive competencies, metacognitive skills. Um and I want to begin with this idea. Uh the trend of general educational system but also at individual level is to focus on um uh our approaches and our activities on cognition uh ...