Think!

Pics are from this week's youth group called YUCK - Youth Under Christ the King.

Quotes from Think! Why Critical Decisions Can’t be Made in the Blink of an Eye by Michael R. LeGault

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. (71)

…the huge, unprecedented boom in various learning disabilities is in keeping with America’s transformation from a self reliant culture to a culture of dependency . . . this trend to a shift in philosophical values, away from the common acceptance of the view that one’s shortcomings are a result of flawed character or lack of initiative and toward the idea of a self in which one’s flaws are a product of hardwired maladies and disorders. (95)

There is a burgeoning demand for reasons to believe we are guiltless. In essence, we have created a huge market for both disabilities and therapy. (96)

The rise of ‘stress,’ or rather the symptoms of stress, in contemporary society is a sign not only that more people are in difficult situations, but tellingly, that they are unable to respond to or think their way out of these situations. (160)

Anger, frustration, stress, and anxiety are themselves a form of information. They are the emotional precedent for critical and creative thinking. One of the main problems in contemporary society is that many people mistake the emotion for the thought. Difficulties, sensation, emotion, information – they’re the beginning of the heroic journey of the life of the mind, not its end.” (182)

The biggest puzzle is not solving and fixing problems per se, it is fixing the thinking that causes problems … But the complexity and severity of degree of these afflictions suggest an intellectual malaise consisting of . . . not merely …. a breakdown in thinking, but often a disconnect between thinking and action; a disjunction between plan and execution, between intent and result. (309-310)