In my last article, I took a humorous look at the idea of overnight success. I couldn’t help myself. But honestly, the idea of success being “overnight” is really a lie that often ends in overnight disaster and a myth that needs to be busted.
Obviously, success in the entertainment industry is possible. But only once you recognize that you need to move away from the myth and instead develop an attitude that will help make your ascent to the top and pleasant and full of successes. Here’s how.
1. Do your job.I saw a story on the news about two off-duty paramedics who saved a man’s life. They happened to be in the same store as the man when he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was gone and they brought him back to life. The next day, they were given awards of recognition.
Is this an overnight success? It has the same dynamics as apparent “overnight success” in the entertainment industry: the paramedics had trained extensively to save lives and had probably saved many before only this time, someone caught it on video, which wound up on the news and so they were publicly recognized.
Like so-called overnight successes in the entertainment world, most of the public had never heard
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