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Anything that made me nervous or took me out of my comfort zone, I’d say ‘yes.'” Public speaking? Yes. Acting? Yes. “A crazy thing happened — the very act of doing the thing that scared me undid the fear,” she says. “It’s amazing the power of one word. ‘Yes’ changed my life. ‘Yes’ changed me.”
- Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything | TED Talk
She has a name for this feeling: The hum. The hum is a drug,...
- Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything | TED Talk
She has a name for this feeling: The hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God's whisper in her ear. But what happens when it stops? Is she anything besides the hum? In this moving talk, join Rhimes on a journey through her "year of yes" and find out how she got her hum back.
From party invitations to guest speaking opportunities and talk shows, Rhimes realized her sister was right. “I decided I was going to say 'yes' to everything that horrified me, scared me, freaked me out, made me think I was going to die.”. - Shonda Rhimes.
- Say ‘Yes’ to Using Your Voice. Rhimes confesses to hiding her voice in her Grey’s Anatomy character Cristina Yang, allowing Yang to say all the things she wasn’t brave enough to say in the real world.
- Say ‘Yes’ to Your Weight. Rhimes was not happy with her weight but her behaviors and eating habits were not reflecting that. She was saying ‘yes’ to overeating for comfort, but had not accepted or embraced what comes with being overweight.
- Say ‘Yes’ to Saying ‘No’ Before her Year of Yes, Rhimes avoided conflict as much as possible in her personal life. She wanted to be liked so much that she avoided having difficult conversations, became a doormat for others and suffered silence.
- Say ‘Yes’ to Real Friendships. Rhimes makes up characters for a living, but she was also making up personality traits for her friends, too. She couldn’t see that two of her longtime friends were toxic people because she projected ideas and personalities onto them that made her feel way more comfortable with them than she should have been.
In this moving talk, Shonda Rhimes, the creative mind behind the hit television shows “Grey's Anatomy,” “Scandal,” and “How to Get Away With Murder,” shares the power of saying yes and how she rediscovered joy in what matters to her most.
Nov 9, 2015 · In her new memoir, Year of Yes, Rhimes explains how she tried to balance her ambition with her life behind the scenes and how she treated her friends, family and (most importantly) herself. She...
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Nov 10, 2015 · Profound, impassioned and laugh-out-loud funny, in Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes reveals how saying YES changed -- and saved -- her life. And inspires readers everywhere to change their own lives with one little word: Yes.
