Harvey Robinson's Three Kinds Of Thinking

“Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.” A majority of the population care about the approval from the people that are most important to them. When a person meets the expectation from the people that are most important, that will become the baseline for self-approval. We will be looking at three different views of thinking starting with William Golding’s three kinds of thinking, in “Thinking as a Hobby”, moving to Mark Twain’s two kinds of thinking, in “Corn-Pone Opinions”, and lastly James Harvey Robinson’s 4 kinds of thinking, in “On Various Kinds of Thinking.”
William Golding describes three different grades of thinking: grade-three, grade-two, and grade-one. Golding once “viewed grade-three thinking with an intolerant contempt and an incautious mockery.” William thought that grade three thinkers were all the same. People that wanted the approval from the group. He continues to says that, “Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.” We all follow each other and will continue to fall into
I think that William Golding did a good job of putting everyone into three grades and described why each person would be where. Within Mark Twain’s we begin to realize that we become like the people we decide to keep as our peers and how originality is scarce. Lastly in James Harvey Robinson’s four ways of thinking, he described how everyone was capable of having all four of the kinds of thinking, and how each one would make us respond to our environment. I think that all three of the writers gave many good perspectives on how a person thinks and how a person would react to different