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What matters in the world today is the post The Lessons of American Idol on the blog Stager to Go. This post lists 19 lessons that could be learned from American Idol and applied to academics. My personal favorite is "You learn by working outside your comfort zone." I believe that this statement is 100% true, because you never know if you like something until you try it. This article is also important because it shows that reality TV isn't all bad. It proves that you can learn something useful in just about everything you do. Yet, I don’t think that the main point of the post is to show that American Idol has a lot of life lessons. I think the point is to show that things can be learned every second of the day just by paying attention to your surroundings and watching what other people do. This is a very important lesson in its self, because by watching other peoples' successes and failures, we can learn how to do things without being in the classroom.