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Tuesday Tips: The Questions That Build Reflection

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Oct 15, 2025
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Yesterday, we explored how metacognition—the ability to think about your thinking—is the bridge between what we know and what we can actually do with it.

Today, we’re building on that bridge with a simple but powerful idea:
Ask the right questions… at the right time.

Because reflection doesn’t just happen after a task is finished.
In fact, when we only teach reflection after the fact, we miss the moments when it can actually change behavior in real time. And that puts a huge demand on memory and recall in the next time, versus teaching the lesson during each task.

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