Year of Yes
How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
About the book
Over a Thanksgiving dinner, Shonda Rhimes's sister remarked that she never said yes to anything, and the creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal took it as a challenge. Despite her television success, Rhimes was an introvert who had hired a publicist to avoid public appearances and suffered panic attacks before interviews, all while raising three children and running three hit shows. For one year she agreed to everything that frightened her. The memoir covers her bookish, nerdy childhood and her aim of writing characters who reflected the world she saw, and it tracks the year itself as she forced herself out of her home and onto stages.
Miracle Olatunji, founder of OpportuniMe, said it taught that stretching past one's comfort zone widens one's world.
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Miracle Olatunji (Founder & CEO/OpportuniMe)
Year of Yes helped me realize how living at the edge of our comfort zones makes our world bigger. Shonda Rhimes, best known as the powerhouse behind Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, used to be someone who would constantly lived her life driven by fear and always said ‘no’ to opportunities that were outside her comfort zone. She realized that by staying within her comfort zone, she would never grow and decided to do an experiment to say “yes” to opportunities that would push her out of her comfort zone. In the book, she shares the lessons she learned from this transformational journey.
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