Blog assignment 4A

Here is a link to an article that we read for class.  In this article Seth Godin discusses seven layers of reinventing yourself.  He begins the article by saying that our culture pushes us to be average and tells us how to lead average lives and that something needs to be done to break this "Brainwashing".  Then Godin presents his seven layers which are: Connect, Be Generous, Make Art, Acknowledge the Lizard, Ship, Fail, and Learn.  For this assignment we were asked to discuss two of the seven layers.  One that we choose and the layer about acknowledging the lizard.  The layer that I chose to discuss is Connect.  This layer is about how with the media today it is possible (and important) to connect with the entire world through different types of media.  I think that this is very important because I have been raised to believe that the most important thing you can do in the world is know a lot of people and that it isn't what you know it is who you know.  Connections can help people get jobs in the future and can help your chances at things a lot.  This layer relates to this blog that we have to write in many ways.  First of all it is on the internet for anyone to see and can connect me with anyone in the world.  This layer can help people with their various art forms in many ways.  First of all it can get them seen, from there it can be passed from person to person until virtually everyone knows about it.  The layer titled "Acknowledging the Lizard" is much different from the other layers.  It talks about the "Lizard Brain" which is something inside of all of us that keeps us from doing things that could potentially embarrass us.  This one is actually very interesting to me because I agree with it very much.  Sometimes the main reason that we do assignments for classes or refrain from doing to things that we really want to do is because we feel that the teacher will be angry with us or nobody will like what we are creating.  Godin says that we have to acknowledge that the lizard is there in order to listen to it, and do things we need to, and ignore it and follow our own feelings.  This is seen many times in my blog because I hate to hear the sound of my own voice but we have to record ourselves several times but I do it anyway for the grade.