Do you have the skill that experts say determines the quality of AI output?
Last month, Fortune published an article, “The one skill that separates people who get smarter with AI from everyone else.”
Any guesses about the one skill?
It’s not IQ.
Or EQ.
Or adaptability or resilience.
It’s metacognition—the ability to think about your thinking.
Because AI is only as effective as the thinking behind it.
Is your team struggling to get real value from AI? The missing link may be metacognition. According to the Harvard Business Review, AI creates the “illusion of competence,” but it doesn’t actually improve your thinking. It only amplifies it.
I recently interviewed Yingyang Wu, Director of Training at Quantum Rise, a consultancy that helps companies with AI adoption. She explained:
"To use AI effectively, it's important to develop and apply metacognition – the ability to think about your thinking. Because working with tools like ChatGPT is essentially guiding and auditing a thought process. Without metacognition, users will not be able to steer these tools towards the right outcome or evaluate their outputs."
At FourSight, we've been teaching metacognition for 20 years. Now more than ever, people need a common language and proven process for good thinking.
