{"id":1084,"date":"2013-10-22T07:39:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:01:33","slug":"striving-within-a-not-so-new-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/striving-within-a-not-so-new-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Striving Within a Not-So New Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pilati-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1085\" alt=\"Pilati Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pilati-Photo-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pilati-Photo-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pilati-Photo.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find Zegna, with Gildo at its head, to be extremely open; they desired a collaboration with someone who could challenge their position.&#8221; &#8211; Stefano Pilati<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a creative, so I get chills from a quote like the above. Mr. Pilati expresses the reality of what must be done in industry and beyond. It really doesn&#8217;t matter if you are a creative or not because the idea of challenging, openness and movement forward, is a process for all.<\/p>\n<p>What if I told you that the manual needs to be thrown out? It&#8217;s <strong>n<\/strong><em><strong>ot the foundation<\/strong><\/em>, just the manual. All those old rules gone like dust.<\/p>\n<p>The world in which I live changed about ten years ago. It was and is the economy, the government, culture, and the spiritual. I know a few who are navigating in that reality, I know more who are arranging furniture on the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>Where are you at?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I find Zegna, with Gildo at its head, to be extremely open; they desired a collaboration with someone who could challenge their position.&#8221; &#8211; Stefano Pilati &nbsp; I am a creative, so I get chills from a quote like the above. Mr. Pilati expresses the reality of what must be done in industry and beyond.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,6,7],"tags":[1249,431,1423,1422,1421],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-learning","category-wellbeing","tag-creative","tag-creativity","tag-new-paradigm","tag-new-reality","tag-striving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}