- Definition: Latin term that reminds us we will all die.
- Insight: Understanding impermanence is important to understand art - all art brings something new into the world, but newness fades.
The Icarus Deception
by Seth Godin
Published date: 2012
Category: Self-help
Index Topics & Notes
- Insight: Cues that lead to rewards create habits: if you are rewarded after doing something, you are likely to do it again.
- Reference: B.F. Skinner - the concept of operant conditioning.
- Definition: An African philosophy based on the belief that we belong to a greater whole, that is bigger than ourselves.
- Reference: Nelson Mandela - Ubuntu does not mean that we should not enrich ourselves, but that it should be done in conjunction with the betterment of the community.