Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

The Curse of a Marketer Brain: Noticing Everything 🧠 #Shorts

12 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Speaker A describes having a "marketer brain" that constantly picks up on subtle marketing elements, such as a new fountain in a dentist's office, and scrutinizes every detail for hidden motives. This hyper‑awareness leads them to question the intent behind content they encounter online, digging deeper into offers and pricing. Speaker B acknowledges this tendency and encourages focusing on the core value. Speaker A then reflects on how this mindset can backfire in client work: they tend to view projects through their own marketing lens instead of the client’s perspective, which can trigger "shiny object syndrome"—the pull toward personally interesting ideas rather than what the client truly needs. The conversation highlights the tension between a marketer’s instinct to notice everything and the discipline required to stay client‑centric.

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100%. I, I'm the opposite. I kind of have, I kind of have a marketer brain in terms of like the, I can't, the words aren't coming to me at the moment, but subliminal messaging, right? Yes. Like for example, I walked into my dentist's office one day and they had a brand new fountain in there and I'm like, that's not gonna make me feel any less happy about being here. Just so you know. And they're like, oh, nobody else has noticed that. I'm like, yeah, but I did. Right? It's like when I watch videos and I, it's something across my newsfeed, I'm like, okay, what's the catch? What's happening? And I, I'm like, I'm the one that's digging through and it's like, I scroll to the bottom of the page. How much is it first? Okay, what's included?
Exactly. Get to the meat of it. Yeah, for sure.
Which is interesting for me, because marketing then changes the way I do things, right? Because I'm looking at it from my perspective, when I should be looking at it from my client's perspective. And I think that can be difficult in that whole, you know, getting that shiny object syndrome in terms of, here's what I'm focusing on, as opposed to focusing on What they want me to focus on. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, and that's a huge part of the relationship.