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

wanting to be of impact, but right now presents new obstacles, new stakes, and you deserve the right to have that space to be able to think it through.

You know, I've been lucky enough to sit in a couple Cornell West classes, and Professor West, I just love because he's somebody that, to me, captures optimism in that...

I couldn't think of someone that is so granularly aware of every bad thing happening in the world and yet so joyous, so hopeful, so loving.

And one thing he says in every class, I feel like the first time I heard him say it, I nodded and pretended like I got it.

But he was saying, you know, some of being a part of life is being on intimate terms with catastrophe.

And I feel like that phrase develops new meaning for me every time I hear it.

Sometimes it makes a lot of sense.

Sometimes I'm like, do I understand what that means?

But I feel like this is one of those moments, at least in my life, and I'd have to go so far as to say communally, in which we're understanding what it means to be on intimate terms with catastrophe.

And to your earliest point, it's something that so many of our communities have had to do for generation after generation.

It just happens to be our turn.

Absolutely.

And I'd honestly say that's not even reserved for people that are public facing or celebrities anymore, especially with social media.

There's such a need to comment on everything that's happened in a timely way to prove that you're thinking about it, to prove that you care.

And I know

the intersection for me of being a young person on the internet and being, you know, an actor that had this public platform really amplified that of feeling like there was a moment where looking at my Instagram, it looked like CNN light, the one that you don't need a subscription for because so much of it was coming from a really authentic place, but feeling like, Oh, I need to tell you what I think of this.

And people are expecting me to say what I think of this moment that's happened.

But it's,

It really ranged from natural disasters to this thing that's happening in the world to, oh, this person won an award, and I want to show my love for this person.

And while it comes from a real place, it also was amplified by exactly that instinct of being like, people expect that I have a thought on this, and so I need to let people know what I'm thinking about this.

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