...6th Chunk: THINKING UNIT

I believe that the way i think is different from the way others think. I am always trying to see the positive in everything, even in the negative things. i think this way because everyone that I'm surrounded by thinks very negative and i see where they are going in life, and how thinking negative just makes them a tense frustrating person. so after seeing people think like that, it makes me want to do the opposite and always find the positive in everything.
What R.D Laing's theory was that; people tend to use automatic thinking,and don't really look into things. That everyone just wakes up and does what they need to do to survive like eat,sleep,etc.They use automatic thinking , they do everything without even thinking , they just do it. He is basically saying that we are like dead people walking ; zombies.
My take on R.D Laing's theory is that i somewhat agree with what hes saying because i believe that people act before they think , or speak before they think,and most of the time it leads/puts them in a bad place. i do think that people just wake up and do what they do EVERY day without using their brains and thinking. this connects to the activity we did in class, you put us into different situations,and wanted to see how we thought/reacted to them. One of them was that if we were on a raft [during a boat crash] and there was thousands of dieing people in the water, would you take the chance of trying to fit one more person and a FULL raft that might sink any moment? Well what an automatic thinker would think is that " no, i wouldn't take that chance id just leave them" or " I'd kick off two fat people and fit four more skinny people on the raft". But really you could have looked at it a different way , like what if you were the one in the water trying to get on the raft? what if you were that fat person they were trying to kick off? There are so many ways to look at it , but what everyone just does is use their automatic thinking and not even look into it.
Another thing that I've noticed about my thinking is the whole "self interest" thing. A problem that i have is that in class if something doesn't interest me, i kind of ignore it. if the teacher is teaching me something that doesn't interest me , i want store it in my memory, i don't even think about it. but in the end i don't even mean to do that , and i try so hard to pay attention and remember everything i learn, but its hard because my brain just blocks it all out.