blog 4a

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In Seth Godin’s “Brainwashed," the layer of Acknowledging the Lizard talks about the part of the brain that is concerned with being laughed at. He talks about a "resistance" that is like a voice in your head that tells you to not do something because of the risk of failing. He talks about acknowledging the lizard so that you can ignore it and do the things that it prevents you from doing.


In Seth Godin's layer Ship he states how scarcity leads to value because people pay more for things that are harder to get. So the ability to ship things are what can make something scarce. He says how the ability to ship is controlled by the lizard brain telling you that you may fail. So by ignoring the lizard you can ship, getting things done.


These two layers are in some way connected to this blog because we have to ignore the lizard in order to get the courage to post your own thoughts. Then you have to ship, or actually write in the blog and post it in order to get it done. These various exercises probably do make people better students, given that they actually put the exercises into effect and take important things from them.