What Grade Is Your Thinker
It was interesting as I read through the essay “Thinking as a Hobby”, by William Golding. It clarified my thought and has change the way I used to look at the world. Now I can illustrate that people can define in three different thinkers. As I observed people from my work place and my school, I have three persons who would be perfect example for my three grade thinkers. The first person I would like to begin with is one of my coworker. Her name is Nicole. As I was working with her for almost one year, she seems nice and thoughtful assistant manager that everyone would like to have. However, she has one rule for everyone in the store that everything has to be organized under her own way in the store. For example, if we fold a paper into three, then it has to go exactly the way she wants. According to “Thinking as a Hobby”, Golding also believed that grade three thinkers are full of prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy. These people are majority of population. In this point, I put Nicole as my grade three thinker. Even though, she is my assistant manager but she could not handle the task as the position she hold well enough. As the assistant manager, the company requires that she has to represent and be able to lead the team strong and productive in sale goal. However, Nicole does not like to say “no” in front of all associates when we ask her for permission. Moreover, the only way that she communicates with us is through the tiny sticker note that she can put every corner of the store. And, she does not like to see the store get messy but yet her sticky notes are everywhere. On the other hand, she is friendly with us in return to get good credit from the manager. After that, she would turn back and gossip on us to different associates. In front of me, she had said, “Good job! You are improving on your sale goal this week.” Then, whenever there is only her and my manager, she had argued, “No, I think she did not do her task really good this week even though she met