I am the lizard King, I can do anything

A quote from Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors.  Something I’ve never really understood until reading Brainwashed by Seth Godin, an article that challenges you to challenge yourself, and your teachers, and your parents, and whoever else you can name.   Brainwashed by Seth Godin

           When Godin writes about acknowledging the Lizard he’s talking about silencing the voice inside your head.  You know the one.  The voice that tells you you’re going to bomb the test even though you’ve been studying for days; that makes you give up and walk away instead of going through with a high rick situation.  The lizard is what gives us fear about not succeeding or doubt over a personal creation, and it’s not until we overcome this doubt that personal success can be found.

              Failing is another idea Godin presents to us in his article.  Also an important step of success, failure helps guide us to find what we are looking for.  Scientists and inventors like Einstein and Edison tried and failed for years before successfully making ideas like the Theory of Relativity or the phonograph come to pass.  It takes work and time to construct something of your own, sometimes the only way to learn this is to for an idea of yours to fail miserably just so you can start all over again with a new view of how to improve your idea/yourself.

             The ideas mentioned above can be applied to many things in the life of your average college student, take this blog for example.  I’m acknowledging the lizard because I’m writing and posting whatever it is I feel.  So what about doing it to get a grade or for other people to read, I put whatever I want to in my writing because that’s what I truly believe and nobody can change that.  This blog is graded so I must have everything turned in by a certain time and meet a certain criteria so in that aspect the Lizard has won.  Does that make me a better student for having completed these requirements; I would say so, but a better person or artist I doubt it.  As for failing I won’t know until I receive my grade for this post but I would definitely have learned a lesson if I do fail and I would probably get some info on what I did wrong/how to rectify those problems.