Thought

“Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression” researchers explored the hypothesis that thought suppression is difficult for people to do and that suppressed thoughts can return to consciousness with minimal prompting, perhaps becoming obsessive preoccupations (Wegner, 1987.) To explore this, they conducted two experiments where they asked subjects to verbalize their stream of consciousness for 5 minute periods, asked subject groups to alternatively express or suppress thoughts of a “white bear”,…

Independent thought is described as the ability to make one’s own decisions, to decide on one’s own choices, and to complete one’s own desires. Often in the modern world, the ability is taken for granted, with many people exercising it every moment of the day. However, for people living in the 1800’s, individual experience does not exist for everyone, especially for women and children. Many authors attempt to tackle the lack of independent society, with none being greater than Emily Dickinson,…

The argument employed in Reading and Thought by Dwight MacDonald is an attack on the new culture of writing embedded into Time magazine. MacDonald goes on to describe the writing to be largely “massed” with many topics, however, these topics simply serve as an outlet to fulfill your curiosity with no other true function. He also goes on to state that the majority of the writing is useless because it does not cause action to be stirred up in a reader to cause them to “make more money, take some…

down ideas to others it could be A long process of analyzing, organizing, and writing which could be overwhelming. Readers who spend more time reading and analyzing an article will make it easier to reframe their thoughts and draw better ideas of the text. In the article “ Reading and Thought” by Dwight Macdonald sends the message that most people now don 't spend enough time reading. People aren 't taking the time to stop and think about what they 're reading before expressing their opinions.…

Thought Question Number 4 One evening at the Centre 4 girls, seven year old Ellie thought it would be great to pick up a medium sized lizard and kiss it. When she kissed that lizard it left me in shocked state and I wondered why a little girl would do such a thing. It also left me disgusted at the thought of all that bacteria she just transferred from the animal to her mouth. Once she spun around and noticed my response to her actions, Ellie smirked and proceeded to bring the lizard closer to me…

framing their thoughts and drawing better conclusions of the text. In his article “ Reading and Thought” Dwight Macdonald, He sends the message that most people now don 't spend enough time analyzing their reading. People aren 't taking the time to stop and think about what they 're reading before expressing their opinions. Most people miss out on the opportunity to be well informed and make compact decisions based on the little information they could retrieve . Macdonald contradicts…

called “The Kinds of Thoughts That Are Unthinkable”, describes how brain actively constructs our reality in a subjective manner. Eagleman talks about the programs in the brain written by evolution. These programs cause us to find other humans attractive and useful foods tastiest. On the other hand, if we were a frog, our evolutionary programs would cause us to find other frogs most attractive, and insects to be tastiest. Our evolutionary goals structure much of our thoughts, and thus also…

Dwight Macdonald has discussed the difference between reading and skimming a text in Reading and Thought. He uses examples such as functional curiosity relating to the growth of educated people to explain how the way we read affects our thinking. Macdonald explains that the more we read from the media, the more irrelevant information we gain. He uses the comparison of people reading in the sixteenth century and the nineteenth century and found that the average educated person back then took…

Sunken Dreams, Floating Thoughts They said dream on dreamer, keep on floating The dreams they turn to nightmares and keep on growing All this stress in my head, it's hard to keep going To keep flowing, to walk around with all these problems that I can't be showing Start to wonder, why do I need to be outgoing? So eventually we stop dreaming and we start knowing We start to know not to dream big, it's easier to stop now than to try to cross the bridge Yeah I know about the opportunity,…

Thoughts The floor was cold with morning chill, sending a shiver through my bare toes all the way up to my ears. Slowly I pushed off the stiff sheets and stood. My head felt heavy on top of my body, weighted with confusion and regret. They’ve told me I can’t blame myself for not seeing it sooner, most people could never figure it out themselves, but I can’t help thinking about how irrational it all seems now. How could I actually think that as businessmen rush to work, coffee in tow, they’d…