Andrew Smyth is a Cambridge graduate who shares with the audience the unexpected difficulty he had applying his knowledge from school in the workforce.  He uses the game Jenga to explain that we will all have crashes or difficult times and that the true test in life is how a person handles these crashes.  Using the tools from Metacognition to learn your own strengths will help you rebuild a strong base when necessary.

The speaker talks about how his education peaked at his years of college due to years upon years of building learning skills he goes on to say every year after college he feels that his learning skills "jenga tower" was weakening. while all this talks about how he feels down deep it is all about metacognition. If you think about it during all those years you learn how you study for tests which is thinking about thinking how to study which is a form of metacognition. While this is one examples there are so many others he hints at. So no matter what age you are metacognition is their whether you like it or not.