{"id":121151,"date":"2014-08-27T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=121151"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:50:41","slug":"mark-ecko-embrace-the-mess-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=121151","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ecko: Embrace the Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/102864535\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s due to exclusive communities in your industry or a slavish devotion to page views, tweets, and awards, it\u2019s easy to get caught up in pleasing others. Entrepreneur, media mogul, and designer Marc Eck\u014d tell us that, if we\u2019re not careful, we can let others label us and define our career, robbing us of our natural potential. The solution? Stand up for yourself. What the gatekeepers may cite as a reason for your exclusion may very well lead to your success.<br \/>\n\u201cWealth that matters cannot be counted,\u201d says Eck\u014d. In this presentation, Eck\u014d shares three strategies for taking control of your creative career, one gatekeeper at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=53036\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ecko: Embrace the Mess<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s due to exclusive communities in your industry or a slavish devotion to page views, tweets, and awards, it\u2019s easy to get caught up in pleasing others. Entrepreneur, media mogul, and designer Marc Eck\u014d tell us that, if we\u2019re not careful, we can let others label us and define our career, robbing us of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mark-ecko-embrace-the-mess.jpg?fit=295%2C166&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53036,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=53036","url_meta":{"origin":121151,"position":0},"title":"Mark Ecko: Embrace the Mess","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"27\/08\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/102864535 Whether it's due to exclusive communities in your industry or a slavish devotion to page views, tweets, and awards, it's easy to get caught up in pleasing others. 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