Welcome to the Icarus Session

What does Icarus have to do with anything?

• According to Godin, the concept relates to conformity, risk, failure, and arrogance.

• flying low prevents you from authentically expressing who you are

The Lament for Icarus by H. J. Draper

The Story

• The message of Icarus’s tale is that if you don’t follow instructions, and you take chances because you think the risks (or the rules) don’t apply to you, then you fail. End of story.

The “Deception”

• The story doesn’t need to end with the failure.

What did people talk about?

• vulnerabilities – personal and social– Choosing to be real– Reinventing themselves in college

• chances taken, not out of greedy pride, but out of curiosity, determination, and intention– Class mechanical project– Creative writing

• recognition that to make anything happen on our own, takes a degree of bravery in embarking into the unknown– Future plans