Kiah Williams

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TED Talks Daily · What to do when you’re told there’s nothing left to try | David Fajgenbaum and Kiah Williams · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

what are the things that I'm going to take on that are hard?

And so, like, I reflect on that, especially now, being on a stage like this in a room like this, what a privilege it is for me to choose hard things and to go out and tackle those.

And all of us,

in this room, I think mostly probably have the ability to choose the hard things that you're gonna tackle in your life.

So you can choose career, you can choose to start a new job, you can choose to start a new organization.

Like these are all choices that we have and it's a privilege of choice.

And so I think for me, that is what gives me more hope

and that lights a fire under me of this idea of every day I get to wake up and choose to go out into this world and tackle some of these systems of oppression, systems of inequality.

And so, like, what a beautiful life that is to be able to wake up every day and be at Maslow's hierarchy of need at the top, working on self-actualization.

I'm like a very pessimistic human in a lot of ways on a daily basis.

But I am... It's interesting.

I don't know that I have always hope.

I know that I have faith.

And I know that I have faith, weirdly, in this country.

I have faith in humanity.

And I think going back to the... What is the vision that you want to see and what is the world you want to live in?

Like...

it's much better for me, and I can wake up and be happy and recharged thinking about this world and humanity as a race that is ultimately going to save itself than it is to think about this country or humanity as a race that's going to implode and destroy itself.

That's helpful to hear.

So I don't think, like, I think, yeah, like, a lot of us are tired.

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