#input post

This is my final input post. But it doesn’t mean it is my final input. If I have learned anything from posting my inputs of the week to this blog throughout this semester it is that I am constantly getting creative inputs from everywhere and everyone. From people, shows, movies, art, locations, music, and all of my surroundings. These inputs are what make my work the way it is and it wouldn’t be the same without them.

With that said, in today’s seminar, Marvin spoke about his experience at NYU and how he took many risks careerwise to pursue something he loves. Although having majored in finance in NYU, he ended up dropping everything to study art and filmmaking in Brazil. He did it to follow a passion of his and gained so much cultural experience and self-awareness off of this risk. Now he is a very successful brand manager who clearly loves his job. I really hope to be able to take this person’s experience and input it into my own thoughts. It reminds me of the project we had to do on studying someone else from the class and representing them. For that project I had to get to know Maria who has had such a great share of experiences from taking risks, but she has clearly grown a lot from it. I hope to be as courageous as both of these individuals and just follow my passion without fear. 

This week I watched a TED talk by Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work. Anchor emphasized the idea that in order to be more successful in life, you need to train to be happy, not the other way around. Often times we get carried away with the idea that if we work harder we will eventually land that dream job that we’ve always wanted, and ultimately be happy. But as Anchor explains, the students who got to Harvard University, their dream college, worked hard throughout their primary and secondary school careers because they believed that once they got into their dream college they would be happy. However, once they got there they were not feeling gratitude for the sole fact that they were in that college, they were working hard in order to graduate and get their dream career. But what occurred was that their stress levels increased and they were unhappy. The point Anchor tries to make is that in order to produce better work and indeed be more successful, you need to be happy first. 

Hopefully, next week will be filled with inspiration for my next input post.

My creative input of the week came from cooking. I ordered from this app that delivers exact measures of fresh ingredients along with a recipe for the consumer to make a meal. After I finished cooking the meals I realized that although these meals looked and tasted very gourmet and fancy, all of the ingredients that the package brought where things I already had in my fridge and pantry. However, I had never eaten anything that tasted the way those meals did. This once again showed me the power of remixing. The recipes combined ingredients I would never even think of combining including pineapples and pork, or raspberries and greens. This opened my mind to all the possibilities, I want to take completely different ideas and combine them into one to form a completely new idea (or in this case, recipe). This also tied along with the research I’ve been doing on Stephen King. He likes taking two separate clauses like adolescents and telekinesis, or a dog (which we consider a man’s best friend) with danger. All of this is just once again emphasizing the power of remixing.

Thank you for anyone who takes the time to share your perspective. Kindness is so important.

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