Chapter 1&2 "Advice to Young Artists in A Postmodern Era."

The first thing you read in the book "Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era" is "INTELLIGENCE IS NOT GASOLINE." This is a very unique way to put how people treat intelligence and learning. It doesn't matter if you have a "full tank" of intelligence or near "empty", you can't run out of it or have too much of it.

Chapter 1 discusses how to do well in college and in order to do so you must pick up learned behaviors, or habits. I found it interesting that some of the tricks Dunning had suggested are things that i do. ("Chew gum while taking tests.") This helps you to concentrate and not "freeze" during tests. Another part that i found interesting was how graduate school encourage students to take the common steps of life and this leads students to settling for "pretty good" instead of "damn good." This made me think of when my father told me how you wont ever get anywhere good by working for someone. Colleges focus on getting you ready to work for companies and how to work for people but never do they tell you how to start your own business or how you can be your own boss.

Chapter 2 talks about how reading is vital to learning anything and everything. For artists, a good teacher, constant and steady work, visits to museums and galleries, along with reading about past and current concepts in art are important to mastering any area of art. This is true, having a variety of ideas opens a whole new door to something new and creative.