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394 - Find Your Way Like a Great Creator with This Tactic with Guy Raz

Creative Pep Talk

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How Did You Get Your Foot in the Door at NPR?

In the 1990s, there was a job that doesn't exist anymore called data entry. You were hired by a company to enter text into a large computer database because they were shifting from paper to digital models. After three tries, three attempts at applying to NPR and three rejections, I just moved to Washington, DC after college. And I thought, you know, maybe I'll get into politics or something like that. The first week I got there, I got a job temping. A week into that job, my dad got a call on his answering machine in a message on his answeringMachine in Los Angeles with somebody from NPR. He didn't know what it was but he said

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