Yara Shahidi

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

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Love that.

It came from the fact that I had a year of no.

And so I'd called it my year of no because it was me exercising just my free will of being like, I'm not trying to do that.

No, being really precise about where I wanted to spend my time.

But then the year of no was followed by a year of yes.

But the year of yes was not cutting it because it wasn't just about saying yes to everything.

It was about actually being just as discerning about what I was saying yes to and

And what not only helped, let's say, in my career journey, but just in my life journey.

And that's where the hard yes list came in, which was what is that thing that is an undeniable yes the moment you hear it?

And life isn't always filled with those.

So how can we take it into our own hands to sprinkle those things in?

Absolutely.

And what's nice is I feel like that's actually backed up.

I think it's Dr. Laurie Santos who runs the class on happiness who had even said that we think that

Skepticism and pessimism is the more intellectual, higher brow, more realistic way of seeing the world.

But that involves just as much naivete as being extremely blissful, let's say.

And part of when...

we were on the journey of the Optimist Project.

The Optimist Project didn't start from this feeling of, oh, we got optimism nailed.

It was more so from the fact that it takes a lot of work.

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