00:00The way we develop metacognition as children is because our parents and teachers help us figure out when certain situations
00:07are one way rather than another.
00:09So a classic case would be a child who falls over and you can see them, they're just about to
00:15cry, but then the parent comes in and says,
00:16no, no, you're not, you're not hurt, you're fine. And then somehow that stops them from crying.
00:21There's like a, almost like they're using their parent as their external metacognition to realize that their internal state might
00:29not be quite as bad as they thought it was.
00:31And so in some sense, then, if that's how we build it, if that's how we build this capacity to
00:35think about ourselves,
00:37then in some sense, verification depends then on the social group, on the parents, on the teachers. You can't do
00:42it yourself.
00:43It's so fascinating. We are climbing the same hill from two different sides. It's lovely.
00:49So the ego, we say as teachers, must honestly look at itself. Great teaching doesn't work.
01:01Because the ego is not designed to honestly look at itself. The ego is designed to preserve itself.
01:07What does that mean for the organism? It means suffering. Now this is where you require an objective verifier to
01:14hold the mirror.
01:15So we say you require great company. You're talking of parenting. That's where great friends come in. That's where the
01:24great books come in.
01:25And that's where the teacher as a mirror steps in. The teacher not as a preacher, but as a mirror.
01:32A mirror that you can look into so that you learn about yourself very accurately.
01:39Yes, so I fully agree with you. The external observer is always needed. While I must qualify this statement,
01:46the external observer cannot be a substitute to inner honesty. Because the external observer, after all, is external.
01:53He will provide certain inputs. And if you are not honest, then you will not take those inputs.
01:57You might smash the mirror itself.
01:58You might ask for the team.
01:59You might say it's very well.
01:59Bye.
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