Post 5: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone.

So getting out of your comfort zone, that’s scary stuff. Where to start? My list, that’s a great starting point. Hm.. sigh. I know one that would work great: Social situations (talking TO people). Talking to strangers is one of the scariest things I can imagine doing. It’s intimidating and nerve wracking because it so often leads to rejection. I could do a survey. Ask people a series of questions about VW and… do something with it. What can I do with the answers?

1.) How do you feel about Volkswagen?
2.) Do you like Volkswagen (cars)?
3.) If yes, what do you like about them? (If no, what don’t you like? Why don’t you like VW?)
4.)What do you think about when I say Volkswagen?
5.) Why do you associate that  with the VW brand?
6.)Is there anything else you’d like to say?
Thank you for your time! 🙂

So obviously it wasn’t hard to come up with these questions and type them up. The hard part is what comes next: asking these questions to strangers. How will I record their answers? Voice recording or video or what?? I think a plan of action is in order.

Because I am a poor lowly college student with no recording equipment of my own I have two options: either I use my phone (which is sort of sketchy and unprofessional) OR, I check out recording equipment from the library. Augh, there’s another one. Asking for help. I am not familiar with checking out said equipment nor am I comfortable using it, therefore I will be forced to ask for help.

My strategy will be to go to the compass with a method of voice/video recording and just start approaching people. Yes it’s scary, but I have my list of questions and I look friendly enough that hopefully I can get at least twenty responses. And it isn’t like people don’t do things like this here all the time. It is an art(sy) school after all.

I’ll post the responses in some aggregated form later on. Wish me luck!

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