WRIT 1700 Lecture 1: Week 1 - "This is Water"
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Real education = you get to decide what has meaning and what. With this being a liberal arts course, i predict that all of us will have different interpretations of. David wallace"s overall thesis throughout his speech, and i am genuinely interested to read about everybody else"s thoughts. This is honestly the reason why i love words so much. Everyone deciphers them differently, and there is not necessarily a right or a wrong answer. Personally, the main argument that i grasped from wallace"s words, is that one"s perspective is the key to happiness in life, and that the only way to achieve this happiness is to learn how to control your thoughts. Wallace uses parable-like stories and relatable, real world examples to effectively approach this topic, and uses repetition as well, with the whole this is water idea, and continuously referring to the default setting of our mind.
