In saying yes to these difficult and scary tasks, she “undid” the fear. In her TED Talk, she explains that during that year, she forced herself to face monumental fears such as public speaking, live TV interviews, and even acting. But when the screen is lifted, what remains? It is absolutely true that being your own boss comes with a lot of freedoms, it also means that in walking this path of your own making, you are taking marching orders possibly from the most demanding, most critical, most merciless boss possible. Why do we find ourselves so frequently unhappy, trapped in the hamster wheel of accomplishment and approval, even if it is one of our own makings? From behind the screen of hard work, good work, we come to feel hard and good ourselves. “So what do you do when the work you love starts to taste like dust?” “I was the hum and the hum was me,” she says. In those moments, when she is most inspired, she experiences the hum-a feeling she defines as striving for greatness at any cost. “When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling,” she says. Shonda further talks about how her dream job has little to do with dreaming and more to do with working hard. She goes into how she had lost her Hum and how she found it again. In the Ted Talk, Shonda Rhimes shares about what really makes her the titan that she is and also gives the audience a glimpse into her life as a mother, who is also a businesswoman who makes over 70 hours of great television every season. In fact, I decided to get into her memoir as well – Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person. I watched this Ted Talk last year and absolutely loved it. I have always been a big fan of Shonda and her work as well as work ethic. This morning, while having my cup of coffee and browsing through YouTube, I came across one of my favourite TED Talks ” My Year of Saying Yes to Everything” by Shonda Rhimes, who is the creator of Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, and author of Year of Yes.
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