Acknowledging the Lizard- Godin says in this section that the "lizard brain" is in all of us and is what makes us worry about our safety and what allows us to get angry. This part of our brain is what blocks our ability to create art by encouraging us to follow instructions and resist our artistic ideas. He then says that we must recognize the resistance and the "lizard brain" and then ignore it to do artistic work.
Ship- In this section, Godin says that people who get things done and make a difference are indispensable, and that is who we must become. To do this, we must ignore the "lizard brain" and risk failure and embarrassment to progress.
The blogs that we are creating this quarter has forced us to ignore the "lizard brain" and become someone who ships. We are forced to ignore our lizard brain because the projects that we do are creative and we have to post them to our blogs, forcing us to ignore the chance of being laughed at. Also, since we are graded on our blog posts, we have to become someone who ships. This is due to the fact that in order to succeed in this class, we must do the work ourselves and not worry about being criticized.
I feel that the assignments we are doing are not completely useless but I also feel that we could do different projects and exercises that we could benefit more from. The blogs and projects do a good job of introducing us to media that we will and should be exposed to for our major, but they don't allow or create the incentive to put forth great effort in our work. I think that doing fewer projects, ones that have more weight and that we are given more time to complete, would increase my interest in actually putting forward my best effort towards this class.
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