The following paragraphs are relating to the article "Brainwashed" by Seth Godin, in which he talks about seven layers of reinventing yourself, that can be found here: http://changethis.com/.
In Acknowledging the Lizard, Seth Godin speaks of a prehistoric part of our brain that worries about safety and gets angry. Because of this portion of our brain, we can sometimes stifle our creativity in order to avoid criticism and punishment. Godin proposes that, instead of just listening to our "lizard brain" or just disregarding it, we should acknowledge it and hear what it has to say, but then still ignore it and go on and be creative regardless of the criticism we may receive from others, and only in acknowledging it can be successfully get past it.
In Make Art, Seth Godin talks about the importance of making art that is new and different rather than something that is formulaic and the same as what has come before. Doing something like that is taking a big risk because frankly in many cases it is no the new and different art that gets rewards monetarily, but instead the formulaic and generic stuff. On the other hand though, sometimes it does get rewarded by certain markets, and even if it doesn't make a lot of money I think it is better to make something truly good and interesting than to make something that isn't necessarily successful than to make something boring just to try to make a lot of money.
I think they do relate well to the blogs because through the blogs we have to create things and try to make them interesting, and it also puts us in positions that we would not otherwise be in. For example, many students may not be that interesting in audio production, but our previous work has been more related to that, and on the other side, people like me who have no interest in stuff like script writing have to anyway. Regardless of interests, we must, as Seth Godin says, acknowledge our lizard brains, and get the stuff done and learn from the experience.
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