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

but girl, you're on the glockenspiel.

Calm down.

And it's something that I'm embracing that's quite new, actually.

I think even though I didn't come from a family that stressed grades, I took great pride in being like, I'm doing well at school.

I have these objective things around me telling me that I'm doing a good job.

And I know some of it may come from

being overly confident in myself, but I also at times have this pesky instinct that I should be good at something regardless of how much practice I've had or if I've never heard of it.

A great example of this was I was doing an interview series and the big conceit of the interview was that I was going to go do something that the guest wanted to do that they do in their free time because it was similarly interesting to us to be like, well, what do people that are experts at one thing do when it's time to not be an expert?

And so that meant we went horseback riding, went to the gym.

All things I'm infamously bad at.

I remember starting one episode and I was like, hey guys, we're in the gym.

We have this guy that's like a great gymnast.

We have a gym teacher.

I can't cartwheel.

Most importantly, I have no cartwheeling aspirations.

And there's a photo of me in ballet class learning how to forward tumble.

I can't forward tumble.

You know, there's lots of things I'm good at, but this is one thing I'm just not good at.

And as soon as we start rolling, they say, great, they're going to teach you how to cartwheel.

oh shoot because I also hate being bad in public so I was like well great sounds like we're going to cartwheel and do handstands I was so devastated I went into the bathroom and shed a tear mind you this is the lowest stakes situation like yeah it may be embarrassing to not be great at something in public and it was such a necessary moment in my life to be like why am I getting such a large emotional reaction to being bad at something I have no right being good at I get how this would be devastating if I was on the US Olympics team

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