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Key Ingredients to a Successful Career

“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.” —Meryl Streep

No one can give you an iron-clad, money-back guarantee that once you land your first job, you’re going to make it big in this business. But laid out in this chapter are the elements that will give you your best shot at it. Most of what’s listed below will be covered more extensively throughout the rest of the book, but here are the key ingredients in a nutshell:

#1: Passion! Passion! and More Passion!

Passion excites, it attracts and it sells. It’s contagious, inspirational and motivational. It’s the single most important ingredient to propelling ...

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