What can I learn from this?

Metcognition: watching our own brains at work.

That amazing quality we have, not just to react instinctively as when infants we cried out when we experienced discomfort, and suckled when presented with a food source -- fear and want being our most basic instincts -- this still somewhat mysterious process of metacognition allows us to anticipate the future so we can attempt to optimize our response to it -- the root, if you will, of all agriculture. Metacognition allows us to be aware in the present of the dynamic between what we anticipated and what is activating now so we can better optimize the present moment.