The author sees this as, “a sign of laziness in thinking,” that results in, “the crippling of expression and flattens the complex role that emotions play in our reasoning.” The impact of this is people not being able to see anything clearly, due to them being obsessed by the personal satisfaction of not stirring up the hornet’s nest with their opinions. His solution to this problem is to simply stop talking “like this,” and to essentially take ownership of what we are saying. I agree 100% with this solution. In order to associate more and have better self-awareness of what we “feel” we should take more ownership of what we say. Worthen sums this up perfectly when quoting Dr. Lasch-Quinn, “Instead of caricaturing someone who says ‘I feel like,’ we can say, what does it mean to say that instead of ‘I
The author sees this as, “a sign of laziness in thinking,” that results in, “the crippling of expression and flattens the complex role that emotions play in our reasoning.” The impact of this is people not being able to see anything clearly, due to them being obsessed by the personal satisfaction of not stirring up the hornet’s nest with their opinions. His solution to this problem is to simply stop talking “like this,” and to essentially take ownership of what we are saying. I agree 100% with this solution. In order to associate more and have better self-awareness of what we “feel” we should take more ownership of what we say. Worthen sums this up perfectly when quoting Dr. Lasch-Quinn, “Instead of caricaturing someone who says ‘I feel like,’ we can say, what does it mean to say that instead of ‘I