Q: Review the fallacies discussed in the last section of this chapter. Do
any of these fallacies show up in your intrapersonal communication?
After reading about the fallacies and ways to challenge them, can you
monitor and revise your intrapersonal communication?
A: The common fallacies discussed in this chapter are: perfectionism, obsession with shoulds, over-generalization, taking responsibility for others, helplessness, and fear of catastrophic failure. The fallacies are fairly self explanatory as to what type of fault they are, essentially these will trigger emotions and cause us to make decisions for possibly the wrong reasons. After taking the critical thinking course I have fall pit to these fallacies less and less, however, there is a major downside which is I start to zone out because I am trying to explain to myself that if the claim is not backed up be wary. Majority of the people do fall pit to these fallacies and it is hard for me to change their mind, especially if they are old and stubborn and will not listen to logic and reason and instead choose to "follow their experience" or their own agenda. I find myself over and over again trying to convince others that what they think is not true and they have to evidence to back up their thoughts and claims to a point where I get tired and just let them do as they choose.
Greetings G- Dragon,
ReplyDeleteI am interested to hear more about your critical thinking course. I am pleased to hear that you are someone that does not fall into these pitfalls of common fallacies. Trying to support someone that has fallen however can be very challenging and exhausting, however, I am glad you attempt the feat. I think that many people, especially those with low self worth and an alarmingly increasing number of women have mainly fall prey to these fallacies. I think that as a society, we have somehow become very individualistic and non-supportive of one another. Due to these circumstances we, as a society, should attempt to re-learn basic interpersonal skills, as well as intrapersonal skills, to communicate in an effective and supportive manner. I really think that in addition this, we should create mandatory self awareness classes where we can introduce ideas of self and esteem to start growing individual self worth.
Thanks for sharing,
Sea Star
hello G-Dragon, i found your post very interesting. It is hard to support people that has fallen but you just have to strong and supportive as a friend or whatever you are trying to be for them. I also agree with Sea Star and her opinion towards women falling prey to these fallacies. Our society needs help in learning the basic interpersonal skills to communicate effectively and supportingly. I don't know about that mandatory class sea star has mentioned, there is a reason why we chose this online class. but introducing ideas of self esteem can be done online unless people really want to meet up but i doubt that thats just my opinion.
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