Yara Shahidi

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333 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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10% Happier with Dan Harris · When You Don't Know What You Actually Want: How To Say No, When To Say Yes, and The One Question That Cuts Through It | Yara Shahidi · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Where can we be to be able to share my love of education?

And so I think many of the things that I may be more known for now came from that moment of saying, we're kind of veering against the path of just saying, oh, I'm an actor to say there's so much

that has inspired me that I want to be able to pursue.

And the reason I say that is because then it only bettered my journey as an actor.

One, because the writers came out of the writer's room and were like, oh, wow, she's up to a lot, actually.

But also because I think it gave myself more life experience to work from.

I feel like when I'd stepped into my own show, I was ready for it.

Those things that we think of as side projects really do help us develop

even what our main career is and while that shouldn't be the point so many of the people that I admire and even speaking to my own journey are only bettered by the fact that they have other random things nagging at them that they feel called to look at and when I then look at a young person where like there's such a focus on being an expert or being good at something and

Even watching my brother go through college applications right now, it's interesting because you have to, there's so many stages in life in which you're expected to write down, this is what I've been up to, this is who I am, this is why you want me in this space.

And it's so counterintuitive to how humans grow and to how some of our most impactful humans have developed their source of impact.

It's been from just being able to experience things in the world and have a very full experience.

I experienced that not only on the side of being an actor, but also on the side of being a student.

Even my journey of just being a student, it was something that I so looked forward to.

I remember by the age of 15, I knew exactly where I wanted to go.

I knew what I wanted to study.

And

there were a couple of things of being a student and one realizing that this wasn't even everything.

And so many times it was nice to be able to get a grade because it felt like somebody is affirming your life path and saying, you're doing this thing really well.

And you don't get that in the rest of your life.

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