Logical Reasoning

PT126 · S4 · Q9 Challenge can be an important

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Challenge can be an important source of self-knowledge, since those who pay attention to how they react, both emotionally and physically, to challenge can gain useful insights into their own weaknesses.

Principle

Paying attention to gain insights important how we emotionally ⇢ into our own ⇢ source and physically react weaknesses of self to a challenge knowledge

Evaluate

Usually when we're given a principle and asked to apply it, the principle is phrased like a conditional rule.

But this one doesn't seem like that. It's actually written more like an argument. We're representing it above as a chain of causality / reasoning.

Goal

Let's look for something where people are challenged, they pay attention to how they react, emotionally and physically, to the challenge, and learn something about their own weaknesses / broaden their self knowledge.

9.

Which one of the following most closely conforms to the principle above?

  1. Correct

    A concert pianist should not

    Why this is right

    1. The person is challenged? Yes, it is a difficult performance. 2. The person pays attention to how they emotionally / physically reacted to the challenge? Kind of --- they understand why their memory lapse occurred. 3. They gain a useful insight into their weaknesses? Sure -- they can better prepare for future performances. 4. It's an important source of self-knowledge? Kind of -- they shouldn't have an entirely negative view of it, which implies that there is some positive impact coming from it. This answer feels far from obvious or perfect, but it matches up better than the alternatives.

    Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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  2. A salesperson should understand that

    Bad Match

    1. The person is challenged? Nope, nothing matches with that, unless we just assume that "making a sale" counts as a challenge. 2. The person pays attention to how they emotionally / physically reacted to the challenge? Nope. It doesn't talk about any self-observation that was made as a result of the challenge. It talks about a psychological reaction the people should also have. 3. They gain a useful insight into their weaknesses? Nope. Nothing about weaknesses. If we hadn't already given up on this answer, we should by now.

    1% picked this

  3. Compassion is valuable not only

    Bad Match

    1. The person is challenged? Nope, nothing talks about someone being challenged. It's hard to really move onto the other ones, since they all relate to pay attention to how we reacted to the challenge, gaining a useful insight from our reaction to the challenge, etc. If there's no challenge to begin with, then there's no way to get this train rolling.

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  4. While some of the value

    Bad Match

    1. The person is challenged? Kind of. We'd just be presuming that 'competition' is inherently challenging but it usually is. 2. The person pays attention to how they emotionally / physically reacted to the challenge? Nope. It doesn't talk about any self-observation that was made as a result of competing. 3. They gain a useful insight into their weaknesses? Nope. Nothing about weaknesses. If we hadn't already given up on this answer, we should by now.

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  5. Even people who dread public

    Bad Match

    1. The person is challenged? Sure, if they dread public speaking, then public speaking is a challenge. 2. The person pays attention to how they emotionally / physically reacted to the challenge? Kind of. This eventually talks about us feeling fulfillment from the fact that we reacted to the challenge by getting through it. 3. The person gains useful insights into their own weaknesses? No, it's a real success story. There's nothing in here about struggling with a weakness and learning something about it. Maybe we could say that the "weakness" was their fear in the first place. And so they gained a useful insight that, "if they conquer fear, they will feel some fulfillment"? 4. It's an important source of self-knowledge? Kind of. "Even people who dread X should do X" sounds like it's stressing the positive that come from challenge. Overall, pitting this against (A), they both describe challenging circumstances, but there's a clearer indication in (A) that someone learned about a specific weakness they had by challenging themselves. "You challenged yourself; you messed up; you learned some useful insight that will help you the next time you're challenged." (E) is more like, "You had a weakness (i.e. a fear), but you challenged yourself to confront it and it felt good."

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