Brainwashed. Washing my brain of the bull I didn't need.

You must acknowledge the lizard, or the voice in your head telling you to stop because you might fail. If your ignore it than it will control you. Listen to it and then tell it to F off. After you do that you must accept the fact you will fail. Failing is difficult because we have been brainwashed to believe that failure is the worst thing in the entire world. The reality of it is that we need failure to make sure that we are taking risks. If we aren’t taking risks then we are listening to the lizard. The most important is that we must learn. If you don’t learn than you cannot succeed. You must throw away everything you knew and only learn what you need to learn.

Acknowledging the lizard, Failing, and Learning are three of the layers that I believe are the most important. This blog is something that I do not want to do because I cannot stand writing. I have always been bad at writing because I had the worst english teachers at the most important stages of english. I also know that the lizard is the one telling me all of that. This blog is a perfect way for me to write about things in a creative manner and not just how some teacher told me to write. I am the one making the connection from this blog to the article I just read. This blog is a tool for me to listen to the lizard, and tell him that I can do this. People do not want to take risks because they are afraid to, but the people who are afraid aren’t the ones getting jobs right now. The risk takers and the ones who look the lizard in the face and say “I know what you are saying and I don’t care” are the ones getting jobs. I know that acknowledging the lizard is important to doing well but that does not mean that I will never fail. Failing is part of life. You fail, learn from it, and keep going. If you try your whole life to never fail then you are not taking risks. If you are not taking risks then you can’t be creative. You need to learn that creating art is important. Art that might be laughed at or scoffed over. Art that fails. You need to challenge yourself to things that others are to scared to do. In order to do either of those things you need to learn. I can write this blog like I would solve a math problem but that would be boring and pointless. I need to use the topics of the blog assignments to realize what I need to learn versus what I am being forced to learn. Some parts of school are just school. You learn it because you have to for the test and then you never see it again. You need to look beyond that to figure out what is important to learn. I have learned more in my media classes that I did all throughout high school because they are teaching me what I need for the changing economic climate. Not just making me some stupid drone for societies needs. I’m going to be who I want to be creatively, and not some clockwork orange.