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Description: Self-regulation research increasingly highlights the performance trade-offs of different motivational states. For instance, within the context of regulatory focus theory, promotion motivation enhances performance on eager creativity tasks and prevention motivation enhances performance on vigilant tasks. We refer to this as regulatory focus task-motivation fit. Work on metamotivation—people’s understanding and regulation of their motivational states—reveals that, on average, people demonstrate accurate knowledge of how to create such task-motivation fit; at the same time, there is substantial variability in this accuracy. The present research examines whether having accurate metamotivational knowledge predicts performance. Two studies reveal that more accurate metamotivational knowledge predicts better performance on brief, single-shot tasks (Study 1) and in a consequential setting that unfolds over time (course grades; Study 2). The effect was more robust in Study 2; potential implications of this variability are discussed for understanding when and why metamotivational knowledge may be associated with performance.