Gaygysyz Bekiyev
Section 2

Nature of Thought

Thinking is something we all do each day from the moment we wake to the minute we fall asleep. It is a process with many steps that happens in our minds all at once just so we can communicate what the thoughts are. For example, writing this paper. Several things are going through my mind, like the APA format, and am I doing it correctly? Can I remember what I read? Can I put it into words and turn it into a good paper? Will I have everything in my paper expected of me? While thinking of all of these questions, I am feeling anxious, nervous, doubtful, and feeling overwhelmed, going back and forth to the readings; emotions, stress and anger one of the things that influence our thinking process. Emotions can change our way of thinking instantly. Because I am feeling all of these different feelings, it is affecting my recollection, my behavior, my verbal tone, and my writing tone. In other word I was confident in myself that I can produce notable work during this course because the topic interests me. I am recognizing some of the mental blocks that affect my thinking, while I am writing about the processes. The emotions I feel have made me doubt what I have learned in these chapters and have even clouded any kind of organization I may have in my brain for writing this paper. Now I understand why people use the term “it clouded my thinking”. Another thing that can affect our thinking is a person’s stress level. When a person is under much stress it can affect the way they think. Even if we are four point average students with the smarts to impress the dean; stress can affect what and how you think. Reason why stress impact our thoughts is we as human being think lots of things. We encounter with the problems during the day and don’t have much time to think deeply. However we don’t have any