Icarus Deception How High Will You Fly?

Name: Icarus Deception How High Will You Fly?
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ISBN: 9781591846079

ISBN-10: 1591846072

ISBN-13: 9781591846079

Edition: 2012

Authors: Seth Godin

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In Seth Godin’s most inspiring book yet, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun. But he ignored that warning and plunged to his doom. We’ve retold this myth, and many others like it, to generations of kids. All these stories have the same lesson: Play it safe. Obey your parents. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy. What boss wouldn’t want employees to believe that obedience and conformity are the keys to success? But there’s another part of the myth that those in power hope you’ll forget. Icarus was also warned…

Book details

List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.60" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Deborah Moggach lives in London.Bestselling business book author, entrepreneur, and speaker Seth Godin was born on July 10, 1960. He graduated from Tufts University in 1982 and earned an MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. Godin worked as a brand manager for Spinnaker Software and founded his own book packaging business, followed by the online marketing company Yoyodyne. He was a vice president of direct marketing for Yahoo, and in 2006 he launched the popular community website Squidoo.



Introduction



Art, the Comfort Zone, and the Chance of a Lifetime


Art is the truly human act of creating something new that matters to another person. The only refuge left, the only safe path, is to be the one who makes art.



The Connection Economy Demands That We Create Art


The industrial age had little use for art because it decreased productivity for the organized factory. That age is ending, and we need to clean out the cruft it leaves behind and build something more valuable in its place.



Myths, Propaganda, and Kamiwaza


The gods are us, yet we've been fooled into thinking we have no right to act as they do.



Grit and Art and the Work That's Worth Doing


The path available to us is to gum up the works, stand firm, and pick ourselves.



Shame, Vulnerability, and Being Naked


Of course it's difficult and frightening. When we do art, we put ourselves at risk, because risk is part of what makes it art.



To Make Art, Think Like an Artist. To Connect, Be Human.


More than eighty-seven ideas to chew on.



True-Life Stories of Fourteen Real Artists


Could be you.



V Is for Vulnerable: An Artist's Abecedary


An alphabet for artists.


Acknowledgments