After looking on the Effective Altruism (EA) website and reading who they were and what they were all about, my views changed a tiny bit. Reading their website allowed me to open my mind to understand more about them. For the most part, my views pretty much stayed the same as art is very impactful in ones life. With my second experience, I came to realize that even though art can reduce suffering its the way that it is handled is what matters. On the EA website it states, “Talented people can have a greater impact by working directly in important problems than by donating,” and to me this is hit a realization point and it is so true. Even though people may be donating to help a cause, which is crucial, it is not as crucial as helping out hands on and learning and discovering how to cure a disease.  When first reading Rhys Southan’s text, this is something I overlooked. Another point that I had overlooked while reading the text the first time that was pointed out to me on the website was, “Issue’s that are salient to us are probably also salient to others like us, so it’s likely there will be lots of other people working on those issues. This might mean that our additional efforts have even less impact. So going with whichever cause we’re first drawn to seems like a bad strategy.” When first reading the text I took out that art is very pleasing, satisfying, and can be calming for the human mind. This still applies the second time around, except now, I understand that it is satisfying if the work is put into deep thought and energized into the right ‘cause’. Research has to be done beforehand.

In addition glossing the text helped tremendously. When I read any form of text and come across a word or phrase that I don’t understand, I tend to just skip over it. Given a list of words with definitions from this text, helped me realize I should start to look up words when I actually do not know them. A word that I looked up was gauntlet. This had a few definitions, mainly ones that were medieval, but the one that fit this situation was, a testing ordeal; trial (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gauntlet?s=t). Getting to look at a little background information of the EA was super important and impactful because I got to understand my initial thoughts more with a deeper and better understanding.