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How Pixar’s Ed Catmull and Pete Docter make magic on and off screen

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Yourself

"There's the story cliché, which is be yourself. Just be true, authentic to who you are," says Pixar director Pete Docter. "You have to step out from where you were, but then do it in some way that's authentic to you." Jobs was always passionate and always had that persona that didn't change, but he did have the empathy and kindness and I didn't see it before," adds Docter.

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