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TED Talks DailyApr 10, 2026

Talks to Motivate You Playlist (1/10): My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes

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In my pain and my panic, in the homelessness of my humlessness, I have nothing to do but pay attention. I focus. I am still. I give a dramatic readin…

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Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. "When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling," she says. She has a name for this feeling: The hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God's whisper in her ear. But what happens when it stops? Is she anything besides the hum? In this moving talk, join Rhimes on a journey through her "year of yes" and find out how she got her hum back. Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In my pain and my panic, in the homelessness of my humlessness, I have nothing to do but pay attention. I focus. I am still. I give a dramatic reading from the book, Everybody Poops.

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