The Believing Game Analysis

There is a set of rules that accompanies everything in life. Growing up, there are standards to meet in school work and chores; working at a job, rules are installed against being on your phone or taking too long a lunch break; and every country in the world has laws that you're expected to obey whether you're a citizen or not. This provides structure in our lives, and that structure allows us to live in a cooperative manner that would otherwise be unachievable without rules in existence. This is consistent even through nonphysical ideals like deductive reasoning. Peter Elbow analyzes this in his essay, “The Doubting Game and the Believing Game,” where he presents the advantages of playing both “games” and how following their rules empowers …show more content…
They seem to be centered around the idea of best fit. In literacy, I at first struggle to understand, there’s often multiple correct answers a question. The initial years of my test taking career, I had been taught to eliminate the wrong answers until there was only one option left. The doubting game serves no purpose in this; I can’t invalidate an option I absolutely know to be true. To find the right answer I have to, like in Elbow’s horse/dog example, imagine the possibilities and which is most clear functions as the solution. This same idea stretches into business classes where the believing game is also commonly needed. There are situations were all your options are going to be correct, whether you're deciding on methods of investment in personal finance or choosing which system of depreciation is best for your business in accounting management. Because these classes have adjusted my thought processing, I can recognize when believing is superior to doubting, like when choosing what literary devices to write about in an AP essay or having educational debates. This understanding will help me outside of my academics as well with simple things like voting and finding a solid line between practical and