TED Talks Daily Talks to Motivate You Playlist (1/10): My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes
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Apr 10, 2026 
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Year Of Yes Experiment
- Shonda Rhimes tried a year of saying yes to things that scared her, including public speaking, live TV and acting.
- The act of doing scary things removed the fear, and she credits the single word yes with changing her life.
What Being A Titan Actually Looked Like
- Shonda describes the scale of her work: creating and executive-producing roughly 70 hours of TV across multiple shows and territories.
- That workload included overlapping productions, huge budgets and global reach, which framed her identity as a 'titan' of TV.
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