Shonda Rhimes
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And I realized that I would have missed out on this sort of once in a lifetime, insanely amazing event because I was too scared to say yes to stuff.
It really struck me as I am harming myself.
What's the very first yes you said yes to?
The very first yes I said yes to was speaking at our alma mater.
They called me and asked me to give a commencement speech at Dartmouth College.
And you're a 90, I'm a 91.
And I said, yes, I would do it.
And I only said yes because I had just made this rule for myself.
And tell the person listening, what is the rule?
The rule was, is that I was going to say yes to everything that scared me for one year.
And that seemed very terrifying, but it was also six months away.
So I could say yes to it and sort of put it in a closet and say, I said yes to something.
And then I'm starting, they start to ask me other things like,
Jimmy Kimmel wanted me to do a live tape, a live episode with them.
And I just, that sounded insane to me.
There's no reason I should be on television for any reason.
I was really traumatized by the idea that I would do this, but I finally said yes.
And they did it.
They taped it.
So it was not live, live.