Strong beliefs prevent people from thinking clearly about issues.
Without qualifying, the statement attempts to link strong beliefs and clarity of thought and presents a “one shoe fits all” conclusion. So let us first explore what “thinking clearly” can mean. Does it imply that people with strong beliefs are incapable of planning rationally or accounting for uncertainities? No, that’s not true. Mahatma Gandhi - the father of the Indian independence movement - had an unvavering vision of freeing India through non-violence. His beliefs were challenged by thousands. He was labelled as a lunatic for trying to think this would lead to independance. However, he stood by his beliefs, planned his protests accordingly and eventually led India to freedom. To therefore say that strong beliefs preclude planning or thinking is false.
Another scenario could be irrational, idealistic thoughts? No. In fact, “irrational and idealistic” are what people labelled visionary thinkers like Larry Page (Google), Steve Jobs (Apple) and Elon Musk (SpaceX). Sometimes, leaders need to have extremely strong and unwavering beliefs in order to bring their ideas to fruition. If Larry Page would have believed that indexing the entire web was not possible then we would never have had Google. If Steve Jobs had not had the strongest of beliefs to put a thousand songs into our pockets, we would never have had an iPod.
What’s common across Gandhi, Page, Jobs and Musk is that these individuals not only had strong ideas, but they had sound ideas. These ideas were backed by years of experience, planning, experimentation and logical thinking. Thus, strong beliefs and strong convictions do not always preclude from clear thinking. When these beliefs are based on misguided ideals, whims and emotions, that is when it starts to affect clarity of thought.
A sign of a good leader is who who listens to others. And that still applies here. One can have strong thoughts or opinons and still be open to ideas, improvements or changes. But when these thoughts are driven by malice, jealousy, ego or other emotions, people start to make irrational decisions. They stop listening to their peers. They start attacking any opposition to their own thoughts. This leads to an echo-chamber where people start regurgitating what you want to hear instead of offerring you sound advise. In such cases, having strong beliefs does indeed prevent people from thinking clearly and eventually might lead to the their demise.
To conclude, having strong belifs does not preclude one from thinking clearly, listening to others or making sound decisions. Rather, it’s when these beliefs are driven by whim or misguided ideals, that people start to think poorly and make bad decisions.
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- Every nation should require students to study at least one foreign language from the elementary school level through university level. 50
- In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. I 58
- In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. I 58
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, however, if, so, still, then, therefore, thus, as to, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2301.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 431.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33874709977 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84338852633 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563805104408 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 673.2 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.2462160796 60.3974514979 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.1785714286 118.986275619 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.3928571429 23.4991977007 66% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.07142857143 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285555699151 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0755759914729 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0986546939886 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168320999496 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.053338390529 0.0667264976115 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.8420337079 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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