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A Ilusão de Ícaro (Em Portuguese do Brasil) by Godin, Seth is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 not to fly too low, because sea water would ruin the lift in his wings. Flying too low is even more dangerous than flying too high, because it feels deceptively safe. The safety zone has moved. The propaganda has been exposed, and the old promises have been broken: Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: make art. Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a speci

Who reads A Ilusão de Ícaro (Em Portuguese do Brasil)?

Author

Godin, Seth

Publisher

Campus

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789781591846

Category

self-help

Subjects

Management, Fiction, Self Help

Rating

3.86 / 5 (4,445 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14