Achieve Your Dreams In The Face Of Adversity | Priyanka Chopra Jonas

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0:49As someone in the public profession, you know, my job is to be entertaining and be confident in every step that I take and in every move that I make. But I think recognizing that confidence is not something we are born with. It's a skill. It's like, you know, it's a muscle almost. If you think of it like going to the gym and, you know, to have muscles and shape, you've got to work at it. just like the vocal cords people the greatest musicians in the world they use you know their their vocal cords they do riyaz like we call it in hindi but which is um warm-ups and stuff like that so confidence to me is like that you start using that at a very small level everyday life you know when you're in school there were times when i was in school where i used to take the other hall hallway because i didn't want to bump into someone else when i started high school by the time I was in 11th grade, I was walking in the middle of the hallway.

1:51And that's the same person. But I think that in any profession or any aspect of life, confidence is, perception is reality. Most people believe that, right? You know that how people perceive you is what they think reality is. So give them something perceivable. When I wake up in the morning, I take time in the bathroom. like I shower I will you know pick the outfit that I'm feeling today I will um you know sort of doing my makeup and my hair sort of helps me uh or my skincare routine actually night helps me be sort of introspective otherwise through the day I'm very erratic I have you know multiple balls in the air um professionally I'm doing a lot of things I'm always behind on time I'm always playing catch up.

2:38So at the end of the night, in the beginning of the day, I really give myself some silence. I play music and I put my creams on and I really think about what the day is going to be like and how my first step outside the room is going to be. When I take that first step outside my safe space, it sets the tone for my day. So I try not to have it be erratic or scary or like, you know, if I'm late and if I'm running, that always sets the tone for my energy through the day so I try to really you know start my day on the tone I want to have and the confidence I want to have and at every given step during the day I remind myself of the things I have instead of the things I don't have like insecurity comes from a lot of it sometimes I think comes from oh my gosh I don't have this it's not good enough or I'm not good enough for a particular scenario or a particular situation or you know we start judging ourselves and this was another lesson actually an activity that my mom and I used to do is we used to count our blessings and you know me and my husband do it too whenever we're feeling crazy because our schedules are insane we're you know always in different parts of the world um we do that we count our blessings no matter how badly off you are someone else is worse off than you that makes it so easy to count your blessings you know the the crazy part about the white tiger is that it's based in india and you probably reacted to it because it's shot so authentically but if you think about it the majority of the world lives in those conditions you know and um the socio-economic divide that exists right now is only increasing.

4:30Like even the sustainable development goals have been set to eradicate extreme poverty because it's such a big problem. There's such a large population of the world and we as privileged society, we as privileged people, anyone who has a roof above their head and meals on their table is privileged. And as privileged people, like that's something that's our concern. You know, there's a large generation of children who don't have a choice in their future or in their lives. They don't know if they can have aspirations or dreams. How desensitized are we? Last time, you know, you've driven past a homeless shelter and you've not even looked at it, or a homeless person and not even looked at them.

5:13It's the desensitization that we as people who have, and that's the differentiation between the have-nots. But it's also a reality, and it's a reality everywhere in the world. We live in a world where anything is possible right now, as we've seen in the last few years, a few months, years as well. I remember when I was in my when I was 28, my mom sat me down one day and she said, you know, girls have a shelf life and you're reaching that where, you know, the older boys, they're always looking for the younger girl to act with. And even if they're in their 50s, you know, they're still going to be working with 20 year olds, but you're going to be old and you need to think about a business.

5:58if acting opportunities stop coming your way. That's how I actually started my production house. Because I was like, you're right. What if I'm like, I need to be financially independent in my life. But at the same time, while this was happening to me, I recognized reinventing who I am, even for me, is so important. And being true to the craft that I'm doing and the service that I have to provide, which is my job. So I started trying new things. I started wanting to grow. I didn't want to stagnate into doing the same kind of roles. I didn't want to stagnate in, you know, similar kind of parts or even languages and borders.

6:39and I did music. I was signed as a recording artist to Interscope where I met Bose. I pivoted from that into television that I had never done, English language TV. Then I moved into features in America. Now I'm producing in India and America and acting in both these countries, which are two of the greatest movie industries in the world. But if I sat down to think about the glass ceiling that was built for me, I would never have a trajectory powerful enough to break it. Wow. Because I didn't make that glass ceiling. So I don't want to think about where it is. You know, it's been made by other people.

7:15So you just kind of have to have, you know, speed and run towards your end game and, you know, have a goal and be ambitious and fuel that ambition every single day.

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8:42Thank you.