Your brain has a second brain watching the first one.
Neuroscientists call it metacognition. Thinking about your own thinking. And they rank it as the highest form of intelligence we’ve got.
Not raw IQ. Not memory. The ability to catch yourself mid-thought and ask, wait, is this actually true or do I just want it to be?
Most people run on autopilot their whole lives. They never step outside the loop to look at it. Being smart is easy. Noticing when you’re being stupid is the hard part.
That gap is where everything happens.