Seminar II: New Media

I found out that I won't have a lot of time these next few weeks, so I'm chipping away at assignments to get them out of the way. Meaning I recognize the importance of this chapter, but do not respond well to it. It is as though Pink is trying to tie together all his previous chapters by briefly mentioning them and then throwing them into a bag with 'spirituality', the 'meaning of life', and 'happiness'. This doesn't just relate to right brained thinkers, and he doesn't really seem to mention much about the brain sides in this chapter (I could be wrong, I'm quite tired). It feels like a short and sloppy conclusion to a really long essay. Honestly, if we took this entire book, and cut out all the nonsense, it would have been a really well written essay. I feel like this little book has been written for those who aren't creative and don't know much about the world and the way to go about writing something like this. This should've...

I'm always trying to get ahead of schedule. PLAY Work and play are connected together, and we cannot divide the two. I tend to divide them, and it makes me miserable. My art has begun to become work, and not play, and I rarely have fun with it anymore. I have only just been getting back to the fun of it all, to playing with it. Because I realized, finally, that I possess a great and vast set of skills, and I can just have fun with them for now, instead of worrying so much. As someone who believes in the idea that a positive attitude is contagious, it hit just the right chords. I go to my new doctor because she is cheerful and nice, and laughs a lot. If she didn't make me feel comfortable and wasn't sociable, I wouldn't go to her, because going to the doctors is scary enough. I go to my dentist because he's a nice fellow, does a great job, and is easy to talk to. Having a man drill holes in your teeth feels a lot less frightening when he's talking to you about fu...