Blog 4A: The Written response to Brainwashed

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            Seth’s Godin’s article Brainwashed is an article about reinvention of your-self from the social norm. Godin talks about how when we are growing up we are brainwashed to follow rules and to do what society expects from us. He then goes on to talk about how we are taught these habits from grade school. Godin then talks about how we are now living in a new industrial revolution age and this is the best chance to break away from the average social norm and to reinvent our self.  He talks about how we have leverages to makes a difference and then lists the seven he had came up with to help the search for reinvention of ones self. Godin’s seven leverages are as followed:

1. Connect
2. Be Generous
3. Make Art
4. Acknowledge the Lizard
5. Ship
6. Fail
7. Learn

Acknowledge the Lizard

            One of Godin’s leverages is called Acknowledge the Lizard. The Lizard refers to the feeling of being afraid of breaking the average social norm because you are scared of what people will think about you. Steven Pressfield calls this feeling the resistance and it shuts down our ability to make art. The resistance is one of the reasons why people are being brainwashed. This is because people don’t want to have the feeling of the resistance and it why people do the things that they are told because they are scared of getting in trouble. When people acknowledge this feeling of ‘The Lizard” they can stand up to it and start to make art again

Learn

            This is Godin’s last but most important leverage. He talks about how the work world has changed and that most people will not do the same job for the rest of their life. The best way to be successful is to learn from your experiences and failures and never stop learning because it is the key to reinvention.

The two layers of Godin’s article that I picked out connect to the Blog I am making in a lot of ways. It connects to my blog is the fact that it pushes me out of my comfort zone by making me share my art with other people. It also connects to my blog because I am always learning and trying out new things on my blog. Practicing these “Leverages” with make you a better person, student, and artist because it will help you by showing you your true art that is not scared of the resistance feeling. It will also give me the knowledge of learning how to make things better.