"You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors"
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Scale is contagious, and Shue is describing the moment it stops being an abstract business cliché and becomes a lived, almost physical experience. A TV show doesn’t just succeed; it propagates. It moves faster than most personal ambitions, faster than your sense of what’s “reasonable.” When you watch something you’re part of catch on across an entire country, your internal ceiling gets rewritten in real time.
The intent here is practical, not philosophical: Shue is naming a career mechanism. “Thinking bigger” isn’t daydreaming; it’s recalibrating risk. Once you’ve seen mass adoption up close, the next pitch, the next meeting, the next leap feels less like arrogance and more like following evidence. That’s the subtext of “confidence” - not generic self-belief, but confidence earned through proof of reach. Success becomes a credential you can spend.
There’s also a quiet nod to how entertainment creates a shortcut to legitimacy. In most fields, “doors” open slowly through résumés and gatekeepers. In television, visibility can accelerate all of it. Shue came up in an era when broadcast hits functioned like national campfires, concentrating attention in a way today’s fragmented streaming landscape rarely does. His line captures that specific cultural moment: one role can make you legible to strangers, investors, and institutions overnight.
What makes it work is its honesty about ambition as a social phenomenon. Big thinking isn’t born in isolation; it’s learned by watching how quickly a crowd can form.
The intent here is practical, not philosophical: Shue is naming a career mechanism. “Thinking bigger” isn’t daydreaming; it’s recalibrating risk. Once you’ve seen mass adoption up close, the next pitch, the next meeting, the next leap feels less like arrogance and more like following evidence. That’s the subtext of “confidence” - not generic self-belief, but confidence earned through proof of reach. Success becomes a credential you can spend.
There’s also a quiet nod to how entertainment creates a shortcut to legitimacy. In most fields, “doors” open slowly through résumés and gatekeepers. In television, visibility can accelerate all of it. Shue came up in an era when broadcast hits functioned like national campfires, concentrating attention in a way today’s fragmented streaming landscape rarely does. His line captures that specific cultural moment: one role can make you legible to strangers, investors, and institutions overnight.
What makes it work is its honesty about ambition as a social phenomenon. Big thinking isn’t born in isolation; it’s learned by watching how quickly a crowd can form.
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| Topic | Confidence |
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