Shonda Rhimes’s Top 10 Rules For Success (@shondarhimes)

1. Seize the opportunities She enrolled at Dartmouth College, where she majored in English and film studies and earned her bachelor’s degree in 1991. 2. Find your calling She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. 3. Be fulfilled She worked at a variety of jobs, including an office administrator, and then a counselor at a job center that taught mentally ill people job skills. 4. Respect yourself In 2001, she wrote Crossroads, the debut film of pop singer Britney Spears. 5. Conquer your fears In 2003, she wrote her first pilot, about young female globe-trotting war correspondents, for ABC, but the network turned it down. 6. Be authentic She’s the creator and currently executive producer and head writer of Grey’s Anatomy. 7. Learn how to lead In 2015, she published a memoir, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person. 8. Own who you are ShondaLand is the nam