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Self-awareness is essential to personal development. Learn why your brain doesn’t like change and what you can do about it.The Human Brain and MetacognitionThe amazing thing about us humans is that we are able to engage in metacognition (thinking about our own thinking), which gives us this thing called will power.Volition or will is what separates us from other animals. We can actually notice our instinctive, reactive thoughts and will ourselves to change our own thinking!This is an incredible potential that we possess. I say potential because unless we take action on an insight or inspiration, it stays just a wish. We need to follow through.But here’s the thing. Change can be hard. Especially if you’re trying to change an old habit.Established habits, even bad ones, become so much a part of our routine that changing them triggers discomfort and fear, even if intellectually we know the change is good. Weird, huh?Your Primal Brain Wants to Pro