TRYING NOT TO TRY

Response paper on “Trying not to try” by Edward Slingerland

write up a response paper to the Slingerland readings. It should be about 2-3 pages. Your paper should summarize the readings, have a strong thesis, and provide some reason for your thesis claim.

– Brief summary

– Opinion

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Why is it so much challenging to fall asleep the last night before attending a very vital meeting? Or why is hard to be relaxed and charming on one’s first date? What is it about a sportsperson who chokes or a comedian whose comic story falls flat?  All of these cases, motivation which is always the key thing to every successful deal seems to rebound.

            In his new piece of art, or rather in his book Trying not to Try, Edward Singerland who is an Embodied cognition and Asian studies professor in the University of British Columbia delights us to work of decisive importance. It is a book of its own kind, that takes itself so lightly. He tries to tries to remind us that philosophy is a factual way of  living, that the philosophy of classical Chinese offers profound insight ………………

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