Yara Shahidi

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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

Yeah.

And so I remember even in being a student and wanting to follow other interests and follow my acting career.

Cause I had,

a contractual obligation to be filming a show at the same time.

It was interesting to see what people said, that's just too much.

And it wasn't from a space of them even looking at the schedule and saying, oh, that's just logistically too much.

It was them just saying like,

No, when you're a student, we take pride in people only being students here and surrendering everything else.

And that's how I know this experience was so not just about me and being an actor.

It was my friends having to give up so much of their outside lives to be able to be a student because that's what this school kind of prided themselves on doing.

And I remember because I had to go kind of pitch to each professor what I what I kind of had intended on on.

doing which is i have this contractual obligation to a show that i love filming and i have an obligation to myself which is to pursue my education and one professor who could not tell the difference between blackish and blackfish and the blacklist was like you know i just believe students should have the right to explore what piques their interest

And I loved it.

So wasn't about him saying, go film that show.

I know it was just him saying, I feel like people should have the space to be a full human.

And this idea of surrendering everything else that you're interested in is counterintuitive.

But even to your point of.

Achieving something big isn't achieving all of it.

I remember graduating and I got the grades on my thesis that I had wanted and I walk across the stage and I'm like, whoa, has my thesis become irrelevant in a matter of 30 seconds?

Because I went from doing this thing that I'd been looking forward to for four years and I'd...

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