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Three; an abundance of clarity

 hello blog, 

This week I've been very busy but I've been making the time to try and develop as many ideas and topics to potentially explore throughout this module as possible. With this came excitement as well as frustration and definitely A LOT of questions. But as you can guess from the title of this blog post; after my tutoring session, I am feeling a lot better and feel like I can now take my old and new ideas further and most likely open a brand new box of questions. 

One thing I realised id been doing so far this module is focusing too much on what I think I need to do to get a good mark, rather than exploring things I want to talk about and working from there to make sure I progress those ideas to a standard that makes me proud. This comes from negative past experiences with the examination world, but I have decided from now on I am putting that behind me, allowing myself to create and explore my profession within my own realms, which I think is much more what this whole process is about anyway.  its time for me to dig deeper into my ideas without focusing too much on how I think others will perceive it (this is important, but it can come later). 

Going off of what I have discussed above, I realised that I have been trying to gear my topics and ideas around the lenses instead of taking my topics and finding the lenses within them. After talking with my tutor I realised that there are so many ways in which these lenses intertwine in all areas of my learning, for example my experience and growth with songwriting. I wanted to talk about this topic but didn't know how I could view it from the 'module lenses' but now I realise that even the simplest things like being influenced by amazing songwriters can contribute to certain lenses of thought - can we tell yet that I'm an over thinker!! I also realised that a lot of topics I feel I have learned about, I don't actually have tangible experience to back it up. Having only just graduated from drama school I am yet to test what I learned in the real working world so I am finding it difficult at a first glance to back up my thoughts with actual experiences. I am going to urge myself this week to find those real life experiences that fit into areas I feel I have learned about so far; not using things i've just been told but things i've first hand experienced. 

that's all for now, signing of,

TD

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