One of the layers for reinventing yourself is called Acknowledging the lizard. In this section Godin talks about a part of our brains that doesn’t like to be laughed at and doesn’t like being insecure or when we take risks. Godin says that this is the part of our brain that shuts down our art as he defines it. He calls this shutdown the resistance. Which is the voice in our heads that makes us keep our heads down and follow instructions and blend in. Godin explains further that the resistance was the voice involved when we were being brainwashed. Godin goes on to tell us that in order to do work and create art it is important that we acknowledge that this part of our brain exists. It is known as the lizard and we have to choose to ignore it.
In the layer called Connect Godin explains that today social media is like a crack in the wall that stands between yourself and the rest of the world. He explains that digital media gives people a chance to make connections in a way that in the past was never possible. It lets the individual person have an opportunity to be heard and to get noticed by the world. He says we grew up isolated but the future is connected and we can interact with anyone and everyone. He says it changes everything.
These two layers for reinventing yourself are connected to this blog I am creating this quarter because making the blog is accentually a way of doing what Goden says to do in order to reinvent myself. By creating the blog I am acknowledging the lizard and ignoring it by not being afraid to create art and not letting that fear of failure prevent me from doing work. I am connecting with others and getting my name out in the world so people all over the world can know me and see my work. I think these blog assignments are a good exercise because they get me thinking and force me to be creative. They also make me a better artist because when I know my work can be seen by anyone online I want it to be the best I can make it. On the other hand I feel like we should have more freedom over what the blog assignments are about and there should not be so many of them. When there is to much work involved with something like this people stop worrying about quality and how much effort they put into each piece and instead start worrying about just getting it all done. So in the end the quality of the work suffers and we don’t get as much out of the work as we should.
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