From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

Jennifer Lopez on knowing where you want to go and taking steps every day in that direction

From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

Jennifer Lopez on knowing where you want to go and taking steps every day in that direction

(peaceful music) - You must have people asking you all the time how to be the next Jennifer Lopez. What kind of career advice do you give people? - You know, it's hard because there is no one-step path for any one successful person. I feel like everybody takes a different path. Like there's no actors that I talk to that go, oh we all started in acting school and then from there we did plays and then from plays we went to television. There's like no one way to do it. You know I started as a dancer and then I thought I was going to do Broadway and I didn't. And I did some tours abroad. And then I came back here and I got a job as a Fly Girl on "In Living Color" and then I started studying acting. And then from there I got my first television show, my first development deal. And then from there I got my first movie. It just, there was a process to it that I couldn't have predicted, or planned, or have said I'm going to do this, this, this and this. It just all happened the way it happened. And I think all you can do is know where you want to go and take steps every single day in that direction, whatever that is. Getting better at what you do. And I think that gets you there. Where that will take you I cannot tell you, but I do know that if you just wake up every day and go, this is what I'm going to do, this is what I'm going to be and today this is the thing that I'm doing to kind of keep going in that direction, eventually you will get there.

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