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Brian Koppelman is a man who’s worn many hats — music executive, screenwriter, and now host of a popular podcast<\/a>. I talk with Brian about professional trajectories in the modern economy and how having a set career path at the beginning of your career just doesn’t work very well. Instead of having a rigid plan, Brian argues that we should tenaciously follow our curiosity while developing skills that will open up new doors. He gives concrete examples from his own career of how he took this path. We also discuss the importance of hard work, learning to deal with failure and rejections, and what Brian has learned about men, success, and failure from writing movies and interviewing folks on his podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Koppelman is a man who’s worn many hats — music executive, screenwriter, and now host of a popular podcast. I talk with Brian about professional trajectories in the modern economy and how having a set career path at the beginning of your career just doesn’t work very well. 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