Search results
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)...
- Yes to Play
- 'I'm Not Good at Playing'
- The Hum Is Joy
Rhimes' transformation is documented in her book, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person, released last fall. "You never say yes to anything," her sister had told her at Thanksgiving in 2013, standing in the kitchen chopping onions. By her birthday, the following January, she resolved to say yes to everything for ...
By playing, the hum starts to creep back, she said. Blowing bubbles, and the girls popping them. Reading books. Singing songs. "It's all sticky fingers and gooey kisses and letting go of whatever it is that Frozen girl needs to let go of," she said, referencing the Disney song. Making it a firm rule helps, she said. Rhimes admits playing, even with...
Now, Rhimes says the hum she gets from "making things up" as a TV writer is back, but different. "Now, I like that hum but ... that hum is not me," said Rhimes. "I am bubbles and sticky fingers and dinners with friends." "My tiny humans show me how to live and my tiny humans fill me up." Rhimes challenged the audience to play more, even just fiftee...
Until Rhimes found herself wondering: “Am I anything besides the hum?” Her hum was broken; all she heard was silence. Enter one of her daughters, who one day asked Rhimes to play as she was walking out the door.
- Say it loud. Rhimes has got swag, y’all. For years, she says, she would downplay her accomplishments (“I’m just a writer”) to make other people feel comfortable.
- Yes is terrifying … at first. “I thought saying yes would feel good,” she writes. Instead, the thought of saying yes to things that scared her, like going on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Don’t believe your own hype. In December 2013, Grey’s and Scandal were on the air. Private Practice had just finished its run, and How to Get Away With Murder was in the oven.
- Don’t believe other people’s hype. After confessing to her hairstylist that she spent hours upon hours of her teenage life with a curling iron and a bottle of hair spray trying to achieve Whitney Houston’s hairdo and failing, her stylist said, “You know that’s a wig she had on, right?”
The initial inspiration to change her "introvert" ways came in 2013, after one of her older sisters remarked: "You never say yes to anything." From party invitations to guest speaking opportunities and talk shows, Rhimes realized her sister was right.
Nov 10, 2015 · Then came Thanksgiving 2013, when Shonda's sister Delorse muttered six little words at her: You never say yes to anything. Profound, impassioned and laugh-out-loud funny, in Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes reveals how saying YES changed -- and saved -- her life.
People also ask
How did Rhimes's sister spark her 'year of Yes'?
Does Rhimes have a hum?
Can Rhimes play with her kids?
Was Shonda Rhimes afraid?
Apr 8, 2022 · In a TED talk about six years ago, Rhimes talked about the transformative capability of saying ‘yes’ to things that scared her, an experiment she carried out over a span of a year. She referred to saying yes to being on live TV, acting, public speaking and eventually said that it was a question from her toddler Emerson that “affected my ...
