Elise Hu

I'm your host, Elise Hugh.

You may remember that last year we dropped our very first podcast playlist on this feed, and it was my top favorite.

10 TED Talks.

Well, we're back with another playlist for you, and this time all about motivation, how to give yourself a little burst of energy and inspiration to be a better you.

So today, 10 talks we're dropping from our archive all at once to motivate you, to keep you going when things are hard, to kickstart that new project or idea.

or if things are feeling really good right now, just to offer a new perspective.

Whatever type of motivation you might need right now, we have a TED Talk for that.

First up, what do you think would happen if you spent a year saying yes to everything?

Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Bridgerton, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and many more shows, loves to work.

"'When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there's no other feeling,' she says.

She introduces us to the name that she has for this feeling."

the hum.

For Shonda, the hum is a drug.

The hum is music.

The hum is God's whisper in her ear.

But what happens when it stops?

In this moving talk from 2016, join Rhymes on a journey through her year of yes to find out how she got her hum back.

That's coming up right after a short break.

And now, our TED Talk of the day.

That was Shonda Rhimes at TED 2016.