why is it important to take other perspectives into consideration?

It is very important to see the works in other people eyes. Because from our own eyes, what we see is based on what we think about the idea of the project. So we have the clear logic process of the idea. But on the other hand, the other people who are the first time to see the art work, they don’t have the ability to jump into our brain to understand what happen in the work. All they know is the most obvious concept of the work, but they can’t get the deep meaning of it, or some people misunderstand the work. Both of them might happen. So at this kind of moment, it is quite important to ask other different people’s idea to the work. Even the same object, different people view the object in a different way, which is based on the different experience.

On the other hand, the public should be the majority to watch the project, it is very useful to ask them what they see in the project. When the audiences have the different idea to the artist, the artist should fix the project to let the audiences to see it in artist’s way. Also as a designer, we design things for others, it is a key point to consider what the consumers needs. If we take the consumers perspectives, it is easier to get the basic idea of what people want.

How does the other shape the self

People all have different characters, not only because they are all individuals, but also the environment that they grew up were totally different. The family are the two main reasons that build people’s personalities step by step. The family,  the education and friends are the first teachers of child, which might be more influential than teachers in school. The education before school shapes the base of “self”. The combine of education and friends will both develop one person’s personality by time.

Since children come to the world, children spend their majority time to stay with their parents. So all the stuff that kids know from the conversation between parents before 6 or 7 years old. Mom and Dad usually are the first words that children could pronounce, the reason of that is parents keep teaching that! Mom and Dad are the most frequent words parents repeated in front of babies. Which caused the first pronounce might be mom or dad. Based on that result, children learn a lot of things from parents, or on the other way, children copy the way of parents acting. All the stuff from parents are the key element to shape the self.

Education and friends usually work together, because before the personality become stable, people spend most of time in school. So people have such a educational environment, they have teachers to teach them and they have friends to communicate with. Teachers usually tell students what is right and what is wrong, those kind of general ideas and also the way of thinking. Teachers help students build or develop the idea of self, so children can be more mature in the common sense. Friends usually play as a group, once people are in certain group, eventually they will be effected by their friends. Sometimes, good friends can be a guide of one person’s life, or tutor; bad friends can change one person’s personality very easily, bad friends can lead a person to the hell. During teenage time, teachers and friends are both very important element to shape the self.

Parents make the base of children’s personalities, teachers and friends both effect the base of personalities, and start to shape the self on the same time. There are the three main reasons that shape the self of me.

How does memory shape how we see our ‘self’?

How does my memory shape myself? I believe that my whole person is made by a plenty of piece memory when I was still a child. For example, the way my parents talking, the way the act, all of those influence me. When I was a child, probably before when I have memory, I would copy what my parents did to learn. So I think the memory before I start to know the world could shape my personality.

In my family, my parents never argued or fight, I never saw that kind of things happen, all my childhood to today, I lived in a happy family. Which build my peaceful character, I don’t like to be aggressive or competitive, every time I say something, I prefer to say it in a soft way as what my parents do in home.

I believe when I learnt sketching, that a piece of memory already decide what I want to do in the future, no matter what happened, I learned it for 7 years, which took a major part of my childhood. Every weed I all go to sketch, imagine that a child insist learning sketching for 7 years no matter what the weather is like to be. Each time I sit on the chair for 3 hours. All of those are not easy to a child.

All the memory would shape a person’s character, it changes little by little, but once it changed, it can’t be undone.