The Power Of Negative Thinking - even though most people believe in a positive way of looking at things the negative way is sometimes just as helpful. It showed me no matter where I am in life it will keep on going.
"metaphors for life" - From this text I picked up how much metaphors affect us and how often we use them with out knowing. We use metaphors when describing the stock market, food, clothing and also other people. Also metaphors can sometimes slip right by us with out us knowing or realizing it was an actual metaphor. The central idea from both reads can be described as we live everyday not realizing whats going on around us even if we really think we do. From the text 'metaphor for life" it says "most of us, when asked to stop and think about it, are by now aware of the pervasiveness of metaphorical thinking..." which proves my point on even if we think we are aware of whats going on around us sometimes we miss important things, "but in the normal rush of events, we often see straight through metaphors unaware of how they refract perceptions."(brooks 616). I agree with what both authors are saying in there articles. After reading I realized how I as well let things slip by me and not even know it. Also after reading i noticed how I think and work and how much its changed just from reading both articles.
I agree with your idea of "Metaphors for Life", but I think your missing the main point on "The Power of Negative Thinking". Negative thinking is about you need a balance of positive and negative, ying and yang, in your thinking process. Oliver Burkeman went and explained how just thinking positively causes a negative effect on our body.How repeating cheery slogans actually cause people with low self-esteem to feel worse. That also when you start to think negatively you can see that its not as bad and to be able to cope with your situation.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think you could of beefed up your "The Power of Thinking" paragraph by adding quotes from the text, such as two of my favorite parts of the text "Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers understood the need to balance the positive with the negative, optimism with pessimism, a striving for success and security with an openness to failure and uncertainty" or "You can try, if you insist, to follow the famous self-help advice to eliminate the word “failure” from your vocabulary — but then you’ll just have an inadequate vocabulary when failure strikes" Sure your life will go on, but this text is mostly about how you need both positive and negative in your life. The negative playing part as reality. I agreed and enjoyed reading your "Metaphors for Life" paragraph.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your thoughts on "Metaphors for Life", but I also thought you missed the point of "The Power of Thinking." I feel that is was meant to persuade. I feel that it was trying to persuade people to not always be Positive Polly about everything. It was saying that sometimes when you are not actually trying to do something it just happens. I know exactly what it is referring to because it happens to me all the time. I think that the essay was written to teach people that when you strive super hard to achieve a goal that there is a chance that you will achieve it, but just don't be surprised if it does not happen. I think the essay was simply saying that the negative waay is just as good or even better than the positive way sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI felt like the blog had very little to do with what the text was trying to present to us. Although what you said was true it still had no revelance in my point of view. I feel like the text was trying to get us to understand that not everything can be seen in a positive outcome because in the real world there are going to be really crappy situations and its just best to realize it is a negative situation and just make the best of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you were trying to say about how we use metaphors in our daily lives and how sometimes we don't even notice that were using them, but I feel like you could have expanded a bit more on the "The Power Of Negative Thinking" part. Maybe add a few quoted from the text to expand on what the text taught you and what you understood from it.
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