Brainwashed

Brainwashed is an article by Seth Godin that is about seven ways to reinvent yourself.
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Acknowledge the lizard is the part of you that is scared or has a fear of being laughed at. So then since we are scared we don’t create or do what we want to because we fear people will laugh at us. We must not let being scared keep us from creating art or doing other things in life. When talking about Connect in the reading it means to use the Internet towards your advantage. To not count how many followers you have or how many friends you have on Facebook. But to connect with other people because it’s a good way to get you creativity out there. Another way to reinvent yourself is to fail. We are all scared to do this but it can be a good thing. We need to make riskier moves and create different things. They have a chance of failing but they also could succeed and that would be great. But we first need to get over the failing part.

These three layers connect to this blog and me artistically in many ways more that one. When talking about the layer Acknowledge the Lizard relates to me the most because of do have that fear of being laughed at. Then when talking about the blog people may not want to post things on their blog because they are scared that people will laugh at them for it. I also think that same way. But we do need to learn that it really doesn’t matter what other people think just what we think. We shouldn’t be afraid to show our work and our creativity because it could be really great when other people see it. It not just about pleasing other people or your friends. I think it’s about making yourself happy about what you put out there or on the blog that you think people will like. Then when talking about the layer Connect is one of the one that really relate to blogging. It’s already on the Internet and basically everyone can see what you put on the Internet forever so that could be kind of intimidating. We can’t look at how many people have viewed our blog or anything else to do with that. Just go freely and make connections with other. Connect with the world of the Internet and post things no matter what. Then there is the layer Fail. Once again we are all scared to fail. Like in this blog we don’t want to say something wrong and then end up doing bad. Then this layer relates to me a lot creatively because failing is not fun. But it’s a part of life and we all fail at times. So I shouldn’t be scared to be creative and not to be scared how the world views me. I can make art or music or anything and let others see or hear it and if I fail or they don’t like it, that doesn’t matter because I can always try again the next day. I think that this layer it just teaching you not to give up no matter what. That everything can’t be perfect all the time and to let lose. All these layers can connect to one other and think its good for other people to take a look at this reading because it could change how you look at yourself and how you feel about your creativity.