Fall 2010 Critical Thinking First Field Notes

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Today my roomate asked why I liked the show Entourage so much, after seeing that I had the entire show on DVD. I realized right away that this would be a definite "reflective situation" in my day. I then thought about the five disciplines of thought and tried to go over them in my head. Although I wasn't totally succesful doing this, I was able to remember some of the disciplines. My personal "voice" has always been natural to me, so I found it very easy to tell him that the reason why I love Entourage so much is because it is extremely funny, very entertainiing, contains great characters, as well as having extremely great writers. I expected a response from him, remembering how important it is to respect and understand others' "critical responses" and personal "views." We were able to agree that he could watch the show at some point, seeing as how we respected each others views.

Yesterday, my friends and I were having a conversation about movies. One of my friends announced that he liked the movie Up. I then agreed with him but added that I thought the movie was really sad. He asked "why" which turned our conversation into a reflective situation. I then made the claim that Up was a sad movie because the little old lady (who shares the same name as me) dies in the beginning. He critically responded with his point of view, which was the complete opposite of mine. He thought that that part of the movie was extremely boring. As the conversation ended we both came to an agreement that the beginning of the movie isn't very good and it's a good idea to skip that part altogether when watching the movie.