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

Well, I did the other thing and sat there and did nothing.

And so optimism is the consideration that you may not get much done, but at least you're doing more than nothing.

Some of it is really being in conversation with people.

I think why the Optimist Project came about was because of rooms like Ted and because of how rejuvenating it was to be in conversation with people that have introduced me to a field I knew nothing about, introduced me to a topic I knew nothing about.

And the reason why I even loved school as much as I did was because there's nothing as exciting as realizing how little I know.

it means that the door of possibility is just only slightly cracked open.

And something that allows me personally to battle those feelings of what's realistic, those feelings of pessimism is realizing I'm working with .00098, that's even a complete overestimation of the world's knowledge.

And maybe that there's something inspiring and impactful on the other side of continuing to learn.

I promise I haven't done that calculation before.

I'm working in my general GPA with street smarts or lack thereof trying to come to a number.

The door of possibility feels pretty shut.

I think...

I even said this in my talk, but it's where I turn to history as well.

And I really do find hope in how many moments we've gone through just as a society that have felt extremely difficult, that have taken lots of effort to push through.

So one of my first tattoos, which you can't really see,

is 1963.

It just says 63 for the year 1963.

And for me, it's a reminder that there's so many people that work towards a future they weren't guaranteed but knew was necessary to fight for.

I think of it as a world that I was able to inherit because of that work.

And so I say that to really frame...

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