David Foster Wallace This Is Water

Everyone has different interpretations on learning how to think, But I believe that David Foster Wallace’s is the closest from the commencement speech he delivered called “This is Water” his definition of “Learning how to think” is how learning is being able to exercise some control on what or how you think. Out of the whole speech that part where he speaks about it is what really grabbed my attention. Why? Because it takes me back to my sophomore year in high school and how that was the year I had decided to have a more positive outlook view towards school or in general rather than having negative ones.

Further explaining my sophomore year before that I would always give up so easily when I wouldn’t understand the material, so I would just

It’s about having a strong mindset to help you remain on task and being able to always give the benefit of the doubt leaning towards more positive. My experience is somewhat similar to how he explains it in his speech, but the main focus is that regardless of what the situation is whether you apply this just to school like how I did or to everyday life; for example, if you encounter someone in a bad mood or acting a certain way to always assume they have a reason for the way they act only to a certain extent of course ,but the point is to have that positive view instead of that current situation affecting the rest of your day. “Important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about,” as David Foster Wallace says in his speech I agree with David I feel like everyone is so focused on being perfect without understanding that the perfect human does not exist everyone comes with baggage. Stress one word we all dread, but many are without realizing because it often leads us to think that we are the center of attention without realizing that we are being