The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Rejection says something about the critic, but not about you. Perhaps it means you chose the wrong audience. And yes, perhaps, if you’ve exhausted all possible audiences, it means that you need to make better art.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
respect the artist, the commitment to the path of making a difference.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
You can’t accurately see until you abandon your worldview.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
The art teacher will assign visual puzzles, dead ends disguised as useful exercises, as well as the creation of deeply personal narratives. The assignment doesn’t seem to have anything much to do with putting pencil to paper, yet on inspection it turns out to have everything to do with it.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Yves Klein said, “My paintings are only the ashes of my art.”
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
the scarce resources are attention and trust,
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Management is about generating yesterday’s results, but a little faster or a little more cheaply.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
Teamwork is what we call it when you do what the boss says.