Tiffany Wu

There's no big or small tasks. Every single task that's assigned to you, you really have to treat it as if your career is relied on it, because it really doesn't matter where you are in the hierarchy. Doing a good job at what you do, doesn't matter what that is. It could be the simplest thing, getting someone's lunch, or a coffee, or getting a million dollar deal. These are the tasks that are assigned to you. You just have to do the best you can on that, because your opportunity comes based on how you perform at that position. It doesn't matter what that is. That's how I started when I was younger, where I was doing the best I could as a production assistant, and that's how I got noticed, how people are like, oh, this person might be able to do more than this. So really focus on your task. Everybody could dream big, but focus on your own task, your task that's assigned to you, and then make it as if your life or your career depends on it. That will lead you to the next best opportunity.

I think focusing on a long-term goal, a bigger goal. I don't think that all these success or accomplishments would come in a day or two, like, in the short term. Overnight fame is rare. I mean, it happens, but it's rare. So really look at a long-term goal, where you wanted to be, and really focus on that. We are our biggest enemy, because we compare ourselves to other people's success, other people's story, but really you can't do that. Everybody has their own pace, their own timeline. You might take 5 to 10 years to get where you wanted to be, but it might take someone 20 years or someone 5 days to get to where they wanted to be. So it's really hard to compare yourself with others. I would say that don't look at other people's progress or timeline, because you have your own, and it's gonna happen. If you want to make it happen, it's gonna happen someday, but it's your own timeline, it's your own pace, rather than looking at someone else's and feel like, oh, I haven't done much. That's something that I would really give someone as an advice.

I think a lot of AI is being talked about. Everybody's starting to use AI to make their own films, or using AI to replace certain people. This is a big topic that everybody's talking about right now, but there's no concrete answer, because everyone is still exploring, still trying to figure out what this AI can do for us. So it causes a lot of anxiety, and people are afraid of being replaced. This is the challenge, but I look at it as an opportunity. This is an opportunity where we could use it as a tool to help you work on something more efficiently, or as a concept. It definitely replaces some very tedious workflow, but we have to look at it as a tool that helps us get to where we want to be. Replacing us entirely? I don't think so, but help us get to where we wanted to be faster. We really have to look at it as a type of technology that we could use to enhance our idea, to expedite our thoughts, where we want it to be faster. But replacing us entirely? I don't think so. A good idea, you can never replace a good idea. If you ask AI to come up with ideas, you will be so disappointed, because they can't. All their data is coming from other people's input, so all they can do is come up with ideas where other people already use, because they're using data to train themselves. The idea is coming from people, myself, you, the experience that we lived in, the things that happened to us in the past. It's something so personal that I don't think that they can replace us. It still requires human inputs, human connections, and the human experience that we lived in to tell AI what we need to do. But it still has to come from us.

I think integrity and honesty carry both. At work and as a person, I think being honest and being truthful no matter where you are, as a person, as a client, as a vendor. People like that. I think you gravitate to similar people with similar integrity and honesty. As a person, I always try to do that in terms of at work, where even though everyone's coming from different perspectives, you always need to fight for what's best for you, but you also have to think about the overall picture. Is this best for them? How do you protect both of you guys in terms of this deal, this project? Think big, and not just focus on what you are getting, but a bigger picture. What is best for this picture, the results. So being honest with them, so that I can sleep better at night, and just focus on bigger picture rather than yourself, because this is a long term, no matter what that is, the relationships or work. It's a bigger picture that you are focusing on, not just today or tomorrow, if you are getting anything out of it.