Shonda Rhimes

That I think is what stops most of us.

And then to make that leap and to leap into it is a really terrifying thing.

So I think it's really relatable to have that level of fear and this block between where you want to be, like where you imagine you can be and where you think you could actually get to.

I mean, I really do think I was a person who uniquely was raised with a very big confidence in my writing voice, right?

So I was very comfortable with that.

But anything else, I was not.

I lived through and had for my whole life, basically, lived through stories.

I experienced things that way.

I wrote about things.

I worked things out psychologically by writing them down.

None of it had anything to do with being in the actual real world.

You know, none of it.

And so I was always very awkward in the real world.

It was a very different environment than the world inside my head.

And in a weird way, it hampered me because I did stay in my imagination, right?

All the things you imagine and dream, well, I could make those things come true by putting them on the television screen and sharing them with an audience.

But that had nothing to do with me personally.

The show's over.

Right.

And you go back to your life.