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- I believe campus life as it is today make kids think in more distorted ways rather than critical thinking. On campus there are many different students that give their own insight on things and allow a certain student to be open to new ways of thinking and new ideas. Therefore, causing one to not use the normal critical thinking but instead think of new ways to look at things. The authors views on critical thinking however, want to stray away from distorted thinking. “The goal is to minimize distorted thinking and see the world more accurately.” The author believes it is better too critically think in order to see everything clearer and more accurate.
- I would agree with the authors in regards to the fortune telling part because if you know your future, you might try to change it. If you don’t like what you were told by the fortune teller, you could try to stray away from what should really happen in your life. I believe trigger warnings should not be voided. In order to actually help someone get over their true fears, they must face it, a problem won’t just go away if you avoid it. Using the elevator example, just because a woman was trapped in an elevator which gave her a phobia of them does not mean she cant use them nor does it mean you must help her avoid them. By doing that you aren’t helping the woman cope with her problem, instead you are making it worse by not giving her the chance to conquer her fear and get rid of the problem as a whole.
- In connecting Dweck’s “Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset” to Lukianoff and Haidt’s “the Coddling”, one would have to compare the two. You have the fixed mindset in Dweck’s argument which is like the critical thinking of Lukianoff and Haidt’s. This form of thinking is said to be the best and is being pushed for colleges to promote and to instill in their students. While a growth mindset is just like having a distorted way of thinking. The Coddling states that “colleges should do all they can to equip students to thrive in a world full of words and ideas that they cannot control.” Which the way I see it, is for their students to think critically because that is what the world calls for in these types of days. The question of “what can we do?” then arrives, which is when you need to ask yourself. What side will you be taking, a growth or a fixed mindset, a critical way of thinking or a distorted one. Which is also where I find someone problems with the fixed mindset view of Lukianoff and Haidt. Mainly, because their way of viewing is that colleges need to influence students in certain ways when it should be up to the student themselves to view the world in their own way.
