7th chunck : the inner world of feelings

looking on our feelings why cant we control our own feelings

6th Chunck : thinking drft 1

you limit your own thinking to your own interest not knowing or caring about other things. you tend to focus or apply yourself to things that have you are more stronger at and careless about the things that come harder to you. As we grow we are taught a certain way which affect the way we think. As we practiced the thinking strategies in class, two main qoutes were stated by my fellow classmates. one said "i was taught to do it this way" and another said " i follow a sequence that i was taught". this is interesting how two different kids have a similar interpretation on how they think. during this class unit we have tested several riddles in which we had to right down our process of how we would find the answer and if we didnt find the answer how we would demonstrate this. one particular puzzle that interested me the most was the Cocaine Addict Puzzle. in this puzzle we had to try and connect nine dots by only using 4 lines and u cannot retrace the same line twice. first thing i did was think about how i would atack this problem. then i started trying several steps inwhich i could carry out this puzzle. the i started to back track my steps and see if their were other ways to d this

I do agree with R.D. Laing, because we can get so caught up in our own self interest that it might effects us. I have tried in almost every grade in school to apply myself to become a good academic thinker, but outside of school I try to think as little as possible to relax myself. I feel that my mind only works effectively when I force it. in fact i might be a good academic thinker, those thoughts are in a sense programmed into us, and it is artificial thought rather than intellectual thinking. The only reason that school education is significant for us that people aren’t allowed to be happy in a society where money means everything. Supposedly if we work hard and get into a good college we will get good grades and that is a good life, but there is no enjoyment out of working daily, no body does what they truly want to do. Would doctors rather go into work every day and, making $200,000 dollars a year, or would they rather be a singer, or a musician or an artist where money made no difference. But in living the dream most people would end up poor if they did not recieve the proper education needed in which in the ideal world is unexceptable. The fact is that people work only for their own benefit, and not because they enjoy doing it.
"Our Capacity to think is pitifully limited", I think Lianing is trying to say that we think like robots. When we think its usually an automatic response like an computer and not a real process. We usually go with what is the first thing that comes to mind. I would have to say on this point I agree with laning. I believe that thinking might be automatic at times just to make time go faster. For example when you do a multiplication problem you do it off memorization and rules of multiplication for the most part. You usually do not see the problem. Sometimes one forgets the true meaning of multiplication. When Andy gave us the multiplication in class, I did it right off the back no problem because I memorized my multiplication tables. However, when he aced how do you multiply and what does it mean only a few including me were able to answer. Others were explaining the problem threw memorization and I was explaining it as a picture process. I saw it as if I was adding more groups. For example 2 + 2=4 yes I did that off of memorization to save the time but if I felt like there was nothing else to be done I would picture something like 5 M&M's and adding another group of 5 M&M's to get 10. Most people do not think like that no more.