Brainwashed

If you clicked on the link above you would know what acknowledging the lizard is. The lizard is that little voice in the back of your head that wants to shut you down every time someone laughs at your work. You work hard and put all your effort into something and someone laughs at it like a joke. This can shut a person down and put them back in line with the average brainwashed minions of the machine. It's not just laughing too it is criticism and distaste that can shut a person down. This is the barrier between an artist and their art. You have to acknowledge that the lizard is there and you have to break the barrier that it puts on you. This is one of the pillars of Seth Godin's Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself.
One other pillar from this article that spoke to me was the pillar "Learn". It doesn't mean to do useless work that is similar to what you did in school but to perfect your craft. You must experiment and find out for yourself what to do and how to do it. If your a video production major get out there and try to make a movie. I have been doing this since middle school and I feel it truly has helped me as an artist.
The blog we are doing this quarter I believe can be connected to the two pillars above. By assigning us blogs that force us to write down our thoughts and beliefs about something to be critiqued by other students in the class will help us fight past the lizard. We have to post our thoughts like it is our art so that we are not afraid for others to see it. Something as small as a blog can turn into you posting your next song or movie on youtube for the world to see. In respects to the learning pillar I believe the content that we read to comment on in these blogs is very interesting and forcing us to think about our work. These articles are encouraging us to get out there and be different, and we are learning this from these blog assignments. They are forcing us to think outside the box which is exactly what we need to do to make our art stand out and be noticed.