From the course: Find Your Passion: How Padma Lakshmi Found Hers

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Golden advice on landing your dream job

Golden advice on landing your dream job

From the course: Find Your Passion: How Padma Lakshmi Found Hers

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Golden advice on landing your dream job

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- If you really want to break into the world of entertainment or television, specifically, find something about yourself that is specific and special and different. I used to always want to try to be like everyone else and then one day, I finally realized that my ticket or my golden ticket was going to be to lean into what made me actually different from everyone. When I was young, I always wanted to fit in. I thought if I could just be like everyone else, I would get the jobs I so wanted. And then at some point, I realized that the things that made me different were actually special. And those things would get my foot in the door. So just lean into that, develop that. Do not be ashamed of that. Amplify that because that is what's going to set you apart from the crowd. That's what's going to make you different and make them see that they have to hire you because you're not like everyone else. The biggest piece of…

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