Whitney Lyle BUS 1050-043

Thinking as a Hobby by William Golding

William Golding was a novelist, playwright and poet. Golding studied natural science before switching to English Literature at Oxford University. He won the noble prize in literature and is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. This paper will discuss his article Thinking as a Hobby. The text is about the different categorizations of thought. The authors intention is to point out the different categorization in a simplified version so that everyone may understand his meaning. Golding explains the three thought process and what individual characteristics they are made up of. The text was written in 1961. The same year the United States severed diplomatic resolution with Cuba and John F Kennedy superseded Eisenhower for the presidency. Golding states though is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy. This statement is referring to the inability for individuals to pick out contradictions and ask questions to seek the answers. For this example we wills say that an example of Grade three Thinking is the belief that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but then they exclude homosexuals from that belief. Grade two thinkers can point out the contradiction of the Grade Three Thinkers. In that if you believe all people have the right to the pursuit of happiness, liberty, and life why do you exclude Homosexuals? A Grade One thinker will ask the questions are all people equal? However they will not stop at just asking the question they will seek the answer through research and pondering. Grade Three Thinking is the worst, then Grade Two Thinking, and then the best is Grade One Thinking. Its important to be a Grade One Thinker in business because, in order to get ahead in Business you must be willing to find answers to questions that others wont take the time to find. We live in a time

where information is the source of success. It is important for anyone who is pursuing success to have as much accurate information as possible. Rhetoric dialectic is similar to Grade Three thinking because it is not based upon fact but rather feelings and persuasive speech. The Grade Two Thinkers have a little bit of rhetoric dialect mixed in with some reason. Grade Two thinkers can pick out the contradictions but they do not fully understand the meaning to the question. Grade One Thinkers base decisions off pure reason however they do understand the significance of rhetoric dialectic. The text is relevant to the study of modern business, because critical thinking must take place in order for a person to decipher fact. Grade One Thinking can decipher the fact from the prejudice where as Grade Three Thinkers cant see the prejudice in the information. The author arranged the text in a way that was simple to understand. The grades of thinking apply the complicated ideas of thought process into a simplified categorization that anyone can understand. Many readers can relate to the author when he talks about the different grades of though from his youth.