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Bryan Cranston's Advice to Aspiring Actors
A one-minute clip of Bryan Cranston at an Academy new-member reception, advising actors to approach auditions without desperation and focus on solving the problem rather than landing the job.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN applies it to job interviews and confidence, recommending the mindset of not interviewing from a place of desperation.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Oscars
- Topic
- interview mindset
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There is only one way to toughen up: Practice. Be it interviews or sports. Be it negotiations or cooking. Practice and practice perfectly. 1. Take mock interviews from experienced engineers Go one topic at a time e.g. Recursion or Trees or DP or Multithreading etc. …
soham on Hacker News · 2016-03
In For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies> Nobody explains this better than the meth guy: [VIDEO] That clip just increased my already substantial respect for Bryan Cranston, though I feel as though calling him the "meth guy" does him a disservice. Yes, Breaking Bad brought him a great deal of exposure, …
eric_h on Hacker News · 2016-03
In For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies"Bryan Cranston's Advice to Aspiring Actors" [VIDEO] Thanks for the tip. I hadn't seen this video before.
js2 on Hacker News · 2015-11
In What I Learned From Blowing An Interview
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.