Brainwashed 4A

Link to article: Brainwashed

1: Acknowledge The Lizard
What Godin is stating here is that we need to start to realize what our society expects and tries to force us to do, acknowledge it, then ignore it. That is one of the key's to being creative, and no falling into the brain-washing traditions our culture tries to impose on us. We need to learn how to ignore "the resistance", or the part of our brain that makes us put our heads down and follow instructions. The key is to realize it is the sole barrier between an artist and their art, and in order to break out of this creative barrier, you need to learn how to ignore it.

2: Learning
Godin says that the old habits of going to school, learning a trade, and then doing that job in the same place, for the rest of your work-life is over. if you go by that mindset, it is almost certain failure. Everyday is school, and you learn from blog posts, experiments, failure, almost anything that you do. And in order to continue, you need to discard the idea that you already know everything you need, and realize that school takes place everyday. And this way, you will learn what you need to learn, every day.

Response
I think these ideas that i summarized, and all seven as a whole, can tie into our blog assignments in many good ways. These teach us to formulate our own ideas, and by giving us the templates and resources to do so, this can help further our creative abilities. It's hard to follow a certain prompt sometimes, so by making them broad, it gives us the opportunity to really explore the article, sound, etc., in our own way and give our true, unhindered responses. this ties in with "acknowledge the lizard" mostly, but it can also relate to "learning" too. Since we're not being told what to learn, we are learning ideas that will help us find and learn what we will need to know later in life, and thats what Godin was trying to encapsulate with his ideas of learning.