Acknowledge the Lizard- This section of the essay basically discusses the part of our brain that causes us to shutdown when we begin to diverge from instructions that have been given to us. This shutdown, which the authors refers to as "the resistance", is something that inhibits people to make art. The author suggests that in order to make something genius, we must acknowledge this resistance, or feeling of doubt, and choose to ignore it.
Learn- In this section of the essay, the author discusses how we must learn new things every day. He writes that the past ways of schooling are long outdated, and that in our time school continues forever. We need to constantly be failing, learning, and creating in order to make ourselves better creatively. If we do not continue to learn, then we are surly destined to fail.
I think these two sections of the essay both support how these blog assignments are helpful. These assignments teach us to begin to ignore the feelings of doubt we have in our creative minds, as well as continue to stress our minds creatively and make sure we are constantly learning. These blog assignments are teaching us to collaborate with our fellow students and showing us one possible avenue to get our creative work out into the world. I believe that assignments such as this are far more practical than a traditional paper and inspire more of a collective learning environment.
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