Post by mstjuste on Feb 3, 2021 4:07:03 GMT
D. Discussion Post:
Barriers
After you've watched the video and completed the readings, write a substantive entry on the discussion board sharing the factors that can get in the way of people thinking critically. Share an example of where you did not use your critical thinking skills. What was the outcome and how could / would it have been different if you had applied critical thinking skills?
"It's all in the bag."
I remember seeing a black shopping bag (no logo) hanging on the doorknob of my home. I took the bag and tossed it into the garbage. Simple enough? No, not so simple. Hours later I'm scrambling through slime, recycled and unrecycled trash and who knows what to retrieve newly purchased jewelry wrapped in decorative tissue paper to be given as a gift to an in-law. My almost always way of doing things was if I saw something that didn't seem to belong and it appeared to be trash...I TRASHED IT. Well, that night literally trashed my chances of getting on my wife's good side and potentially creating a superficial, toxic relationship with in-laws that would now perceive me brash, selfish, inconsiderate and then some. Let's revisit this scenario to see what could I have done differently? When I saw the bag, I could have asked "Why is this here? What is this?" I allowed My biases and habits (what always happened) to blind me and hinder me from looking at this black plastic bag as a regular plastic bag (trash), versus seeing it as an item that was not on the door and has a purpose or several reasons why it could be on the door. Who put it there? Why? What's this colorful tissue paper doing inside of the bag? Is there something of value in here or is it just trash? Or maybe, this maybe seen as "trash" to me but may have some intrinsic value or projected value from the individual that placed it there. Should I throw it away? Who should I ask? and the list of questions would have eventually led me to a process of asking my wife about the bag and would have saved me the "trauma" of having to dig through TRASH in an initial effort to rid of "Trash". Pun intended.
My answer and solution to the mystery trash is... where? You know...
It's ALL in the BAG.
*Smile*
Barriers
After you've watched the video and completed the readings, write a substantive entry on the discussion board sharing the factors that can get in the way of people thinking critically. Share an example of where you did not use your critical thinking skills. What was the outcome and how could / would it have been different if you had applied critical thinking skills?
"It's all in the bag."
I remember seeing a black shopping bag (no logo) hanging on the doorknob of my home. I took the bag and tossed it into the garbage. Simple enough? No, not so simple. Hours later I'm scrambling through slime, recycled and unrecycled trash and who knows what to retrieve newly purchased jewelry wrapped in decorative tissue paper to be given as a gift to an in-law. My almost always way of doing things was if I saw something that didn't seem to belong and it appeared to be trash...I TRASHED IT. Well, that night literally trashed my chances of getting on my wife's good side and potentially creating a superficial, toxic relationship with in-laws that would now perceive me brash, selfish, inconsiderate and then some. Let's revisit this scenario to see what could I have done differently? When I saw the bag, I could have asked "Why is this here? What is this?" I allowed My biases and habits (what always happened) to blind me and hinder me from looking at this black plastic bag as a regular plastic bag (trash), versus seeing it as an item that was not on the door and has a purpose or several reasons why it could be on the door. Who put it there? Why? What's this colorful tissue paper doing inside of the bag? Is there something of value in here or is it just trash? Or maybe, this maybe seen as "trash" to me but may have some intrinsic value or projected value from the individual that placed it there. Should I throw it away? Who should I ask? and the list of questions would have eventually led me to a process of asking my wife about the bag and would have saved me the "trauma" of having to dig through TRASH in an initial effort to rid of "Trash". Pun intended.
My answer and solution to the mystery trash is... where? You know...It's ALL in the BAG.
*Smile*