Just beginning Icarus Deception and it = awesome!!! (Sidenote hashtag icarausdeception awesome) (Sidenote, okay so I'm 29 going on 80 and dont really understand hashtag usage but like the way it sounds so watch out for plenty of hashtagging).
What's I.D. all about?
The author discusses how the story of Icarus plays into limiting beliefs. Icarus and his father were stuck on the island of Crete. To escape, the father made wings out of wax. They began flying and Icarus loved the feeling. His father warned him not too fly so high, so close to the sun, but in Icarus's wonder with the feeling of flying, he ignored his father's advice and flew higher and higher. The sun's rays became warmer and warmer and began to melt his wax wings. Icarus fell to his death.
The main moral that people tend to reach=don't fly to close to sun or else you'll die
play it safe, listen to parents, the man and yada yada
Author thinks this is dangerous message!!!!! Sure Icarus ended up plunging to an early death, but what about those glorious moments before, when Icarus was living, truly living?
Instead of flying high, and living and breathing and leaping, people fly too low, much to low.
Become cogs in wheel.
What then is the point of living???
So how do we fly close to the sun? The author believes each person is an artist, but not the artist in the conventional sense.
He believes an artist is someone who creates connections.
By creating anything that connects to others, that resonates with others, art is made.
I love that idea that you don't have to wear hipster clothing or try to mimic someone elses idea of art.
Take away points:
Opposite of coherence is interesting (love this! and logically these blogs = opposite of coherence, ergo these blogs=interesting)
Art doesn't fit in a narrow defenition, it is doing when you feel alive
pain=growth
hashtag buster hashtag flying too close to the sun hashtag awesome!!!
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