Offering students guidance about how to make good choices at school can be tricky. Teachers might struggle to feel overly preachy or vague when giving life lessons. This lesson takes you a different route--it fuses some of the most critical research in character (optimism, mindset, gratitude, grit, and self-control) and allows students to discover, for themselves, why metacognition matters. It's applicable to all contents, and can be a great way to invest students and build culture.