Meet Arda Ren

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Arda Ren a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Arda, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

Due to the nature of my work, I have to be in the office 10 hours a day, 7 days a week which can get quite hard on the body. However, loving your work definitely helps your mind deal with the exhaustion. I would definitely say that passion is what drives me forward.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I’m a classically trained composer and orchestrator. Right now, I have the pleasure of working as a TV composer at Mike Post Productions. This season, we have three shows up in the air, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and a BBC show called Mammoth. It’s an exhilarating process to watch the cues you work on develop and grow into the professional sound you know and expect from network TV. There are a lot of details that go into each mix, and half of the time, the process feels like a puzzle you have to solve. My job is to piece together those puzzles and present them as a whole.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Technical skills, networking, and luck. Unfortunately, you have to excel at all three to get somewhere in highly competitive fields like this. One quick tip I can give would be to read the long and dreary software manuals that everybody ignores. They end up saving the day at the most unexpected moments and give you a leg-up.

As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?

Reading War and Peace was sort of a turning point in my life. As a teenager, Tolstoy was like a partner I could come home to every day. If you’re in a creative field, being able to handle multiple narrative threads simultaneously is an indisposable skill, and War and Peace is a shining example of that.

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