Yara Shahidi
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547 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 10 Apr
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Mind you, while we were in it, deeply challenging. So some of it is that I do know I'm minimizing past challenges. And I'm trying to come to terms with just being more honest with that. But I think some of it, too, is just knowing... Again, coming back to the cause and effect thing, so many things happen to good people. Yeah, so many things you can't account for.
It has nothing to do with how morally upstanding you are. It has nothing to do with how many resources you have, what you have, what you don't have. And I think maybe it's hitting my quarter-life crisis a couple months early. I think I hear stories of what people go through, whether it's family members passing, certain things like that.
And I go, would I be not able to overcome, willing to overcome? I think I have the capacity to do things. But I'm like, do I have the willingness to see a challenge and push through it? I'm always... Part of it comes from just my genuine amazement of the courage that people muster in times that... feel almost impossible, at least outside looking in.
So maybe some of it, it just comes from that space of like, I'm truly amazed. I can't wrap my mind around it when I hear other people's stories of like, what made you double down and push through these hard moments? Again, part of why we started the podcast was being like, I want to hear what did make you go through that? And it's been really...
clarifying to me because I think it almost felt like there's some sort of magical alchemy that I couldn't name that's happening versus like, no, it's a mixture of human perseverance and the fact that hopefully, God willing, what... the traits that you need come to you when you need them. The qualities that you need come to you when you need them. And so that's helping me make sense of it.
But I think for me, I'm like, what is the mental fortitude regimen that helps us as young people just continue to build A sense of not even just discipline in terms of schedule, but discipline in terms of being like, I know what my mind is doing. I'm kind of aware of it. That's interesting. I'm able to move through this.
I'm able to move through the inevitable losses we're going to deal with, challenges we're going to deal with, the things I can't account for. Yeah. That's really insightful, though. Yeah. So it's been top of mind, but I don't know how helpful it is to be thinking about it too much.
I think that's the thought that keeps me up, which is what should I be doing? Do you feel like you've always been disciplined?
But even as a college athlete, that's something, even if I was flying back and forth and doing all that, my friends that were waking up at 5 a.m. every day, I was like,
That's a great way of naming it because I think that's something I've struggled to name. It's not fun to me. It's not that I'm sacrificing these things. It's not a sacrifice. I wasn't interested.
Mm-hmm.
I'd have to say it's 50-50. I'm pretty lucky to feel surrounded by people that are chasing fun. Dream and all of it looks very different.
Yeah, some of them I don't even understand but I see the passion and so I think just by the nature of maybe just who I've ended up in community with I'm surrounded by people where I feel like Generationally, there are a lot of people that are moved by whether it's their art or their career I think I saw that both in the creative landscape.
But I think even in the creative space, what was a good example is I'm like, all my friends are at the top of the top now, but they didn't start that way. And so many of them had really interesting experiences.
kind of non-traditional ways of getting into their respective field, which require just a lot of belief in self, not necessarily traditional schooling to be a musician, traditional this to be that. And so in that regard, I see a lot of discipline there. And I think what's funny is I hang out with people that all have bedtimes. They're like, well, I'm cool tapping out.
And also people that are very sure about what is fun to them and participate in like, oh, this is what's fun to me. It's different for each of us, but it's cool to be like, oh, yeah, people are only showing up because this is enjoyable to them. And they have felt freed of showing up for the sake of showing up.
Yeah. I think it's a mix. Like when I see somebody like my little brother, 16, we're technically same generation.
And he's someone that's also very creatively inspired. But I think the difference that I see is that – Even having, like, Instagram didn't come about until I was 13. And even though that was young, it was enough time for my brain to have had a life before social media. And it was, sorry, it was years before it became a regular part of my life. Right.
And it was years before we were using that to compare. So I just feel like I had more mental tools about how to deal with it. Still hard. Still on my phone way too much. I turn on grayscale at random times to be like, let me, I don't know, does it disrupt the serotonin? I don't know the science behind it, but I'm like grayscale.
But I think the thing that I see is like, oh, their world is so busy all the time that I can't even blame the feeling of distraction because I'm like, between all the news that's being intaken and between the fact that I feel like when I was growing up, I was only preoccupied with the life that I was living.
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