Kiah Williams

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130 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 28 Feb

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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

Like, people are tired.

And at the same time, this is it.

I think you had mentioned previously this concept of short-term pain, long-term gain.

I think many of us are in this room or watching this talk because you've had a lot of really cool opportunities to be successful.

And I think what we learn from that is delayed gratification oftentimes, to say, OK, you put in these hours studying, you do schooling, you wait for that promotion, you work hard, you put your head down and you grind to get to some next step.

And that is great, that is awesome.

At the same time, I want to just raise the alarm that we cannot defer life and we cannot think about, like, well, you know, right now is really challenging.

Hopefully, five years from now, it'll be better.

I think that there is a time in which you have to decide for yourself, when am I in that grinded-out, delayed gratification, I'm going to just put in the time and then pop my head out later, and when are you going to say to yourself, like, this is my life,

Now, how am I going to make decisions and take new actions that change my life, my family, my community, my world for the better?

I think we're in an incredible moment where thinking about what really matters to you, what really matters, not the things, there's a million things that everyone says that they care about, right?

Because to be a good human, to be a good person, you must care about a lot of things.

You must do all the things, you must vote, you must recycle, you must go to see your dentist every six months.

There's all these things that we all have to do.

I think there's too much, there's so many things, it's so hard to feel like you are a good person that is doing good things.

And I think this is a time, I've really been thinking about this because I have a new priority, which is I have a child now, it's how do I focus on the things that actually really matter?

And for me, it's understanding more authentically for myself

What are the things that, like, for me, it's again, it's like, what are the things that bother me?

What are the things that anger me?

What are the things I'm excited about?

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