Yara Shahidi
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And it's something that you have to cultivate daily.
And it's something that you have to pour into because life is challenging.
And we're acknowledging that.
Optimism is not what exists in a vacuum on your best day, but how you're pulling through for yourself on your worst days.
And so, so much of what we came to, even from having conversations with
sociologists and entertainers was that if joy is the feeling, optimism is the practice, and it is the fighting for that joy, even amidst all of the challenges.
It's not about ignoring the world.
It's about taking the world very seriously and knowing that in order to function in this world, it requires so many tools, so much pouring into self, so much pouring into community.
And how are we going to go about that?
Right.
Well, I love that observation because I think you're right.
And I think generationally there's a bit of that shock as well of –
not necessarily being as tethered or tied to our past in the same way.
And so there is a bit of shock of being like, if you were born into a generation in which, when I think of the discrepancies between my brother and I, who are eight years apart but still Gen Z, and he was born into a world in which marriage equality
was a thing by the time he hit like adolescence.
And even just eight years back, I had lived a great chunk of my life while that was still being fought for.
And so thinking that even in a couple of years span, things went from being fought for to being a given.
And now we're kind of at a phase where we're realizing, oh, it's not a given.
I may not have been there for a while.
People were fighting for it.
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