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NB: This may not be a word-for-word transcript. How Successful People Take Risks We are – most of us – likely at some point in childhood to have been told the story of Daedalus and Icarus. This Ancient Greek myth – which dates back to the earliest days of civilisation – introduces us to the gifted and canny architect Daedalus, who was imprisoned by evil king Minos in a tall tower in an isolated corner of Crete, together with his beloved son Icarus. Unwilling to spend the rest of his days in captivity, Daedalus constructed some wings by glueing together the feathers of passing birds with beeswax and invited Icarus to join him on the window ledge in a bid for freedom. But with one caveat: if Icarus ever went too high, the sun’s rays would turn the wax into liquid and Icarus would be done for. After successfully negotiating a way through Cretan airspace, somewhere past Samos, despite his father’s kindly and patient warnings, Icarus got carried away; the young man couldn’t
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