Taylor Luongo
Matthews
English 101 A85
10/2/2012

My reading response is on David Foster’s speech “This is Water”. Fosters point is, not insulting, but explaining how to “think”. He gives example on how people think in different ways. “Blind Certainty” is another point he runs down stating how people see one way and one way only. He uses the phase “lens of self” as a way of how people receive the world. To alter this he brings up “Learning how to think” meaning “exercising some control over how and what you think”.
I’m in college now so I presume that I already know how to think. Maybe my way of thinking is or could be the hardest or easiest way of thinking. In his speech he doesn’t want people to be insulted about what he is talking about. Just to look or “think” about it through a different prospective. I know the way I study and learn. I know the way I study and learn materials may be different for a different person. My friend finds the easiest ways to get his work done while still getting good grades. I on the other hand I need to have a hard copy of the material and look over it many times just to thouroughly know the material. David Foster also talks about “Blind Certainty” as I mentioned before. The so call “self centeredness” is how the world may seem like it revolves around you because you’re looking at it out of your own perspective. I know I feel like that sometimes. It’s not that I think about myself all the time or anything but I just feel like things get in MY way. Like Foster’s example of how people on the highway might be in YOUR way, yet you might be in theirs. I’ve been in that same position many times, not thinking of the other person. Maybe they have a baby or a handicap individual in the car and their driving safe. Perhaps there’s a sign on a car that says “baby on board”. The person in that car may think it may make the other driver