Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

And uh yeah, and and and and it worked.

I got into an Ivy League school and University of Pennsylvania.

Yeah.

Um so, you know, I think the way they

spoke to me makes sense with my inner monologue.

I am very like, you know, results driven and

You know, I just saw the Novak Djokovic uh trailer uh for that came out this week.

and hearing uh hearing him talk about like tennis and stuff.

Mm-hmm.

Uh I think the trailer's supposed to like highlight like, oh, like look how like how um

Uh how how harsh he is on himself.

And to me, I'm just like, Oh, that's me.

What did you see in him and yourself?

Just this drive for

uh to prove everyone wrong, to to this drive for excellence, this unrelenting work ethic, uh, um, to push yourself

past your breaking point.

Um and I think that's something that uh I'm I'm I actually am glad that was instilled in me at at a young age because I don't think I can like get through a season of beef

Without that.

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