Abstract thinking refers to our ability to understand complex concepts that don’t rely directly on our physical senses. Such thinking relies on our capacity to hold frameworks and models in our minds of how the world works.
The ability for abstract thinking is so necessary for our increasingly complex and digitalized world—where our physical senses are not nearly sufficient to lead us in the right direction.The key to abstract thinking comes from metacognition—our ability to understand our own mental processes.
In turn, metacognition embodies the essence of abstract thinking, as we cannot observe with our senses our mental processes.
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