INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this report is to introduce a Ted Talk and discuss it under certain headings. The Ted Talk I picked is “A Year of Saying Yes to Everything” by Shonda Rhimes. In this report I will cover the key arguments, the way Shonda Rhimes delivered the talk and my conclusion of the talk.
Shonda Lynn Rhimes is a television producer and a writer. She is the creator, head writer, executive and show runner of many television shows including the medical drama television series Grey’s Anatomy, its spin of show Private Practice, the legal series How to Get Away With Murder, the political thriller series Scandal and the new show with debuted on march 24 2016 The Catch. In May 2007 Shonda Rhimes was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 people who help shape the world. The television …show more content…
For one year she said yes to all the things that scared her. Anything that made her nervous or took her out of her comfort zone. As took this journey a crazy thing happened the very act of doing the things that scared her undid the fear. “It’s amazing the power of one word. ‘Yes’ changed my life. ‘Yes’ changed me.”
She talked about one particular time she said yes that made more difference than any other. She made a vow that every time one of her kids asked her to play, she would say yes. She said saying yes to playing with her children likely saved her career. Shonda Rhimes is a television writer something most people would consider a dream job. “But I understand a dream job is not about dreaming it’s all job, all work, all reality, all blood, all sweat, no tears”. She has three shows in production at a time sometimes four, she’s responsible for 70 hours of TV a season.
There is this felling she sometimes gets she calls it the hum. “The hum sounds like an open road and I could drive it forever. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God’s whisper right in my
The purpose of this report is to introduce a Ted Talk and discuss it under certain headings. The Ted Talk I picked is “A Year of Saying Yes to Everything” by Shonda Rhimes. In this report I will cover the key arguments, the way Shonda Rhimes delivered the talk and my conclusion of the talk.
Shonda Lynn Rhimes is a television producer and a writer. She is the creator, head writer, executive and show runner of many television shows including the medical drama television series Grey’s Anatomy, its spin of show Private Practice, the legal series How to Get Away With Murder, the political thriller series Scandal and the new show with debuted on march 24 2016 The Catch. In May 2007 Shonda Rhimes was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 people who help shape the world. The television …show more content…
For one year she said yes to all the things that scared her. Anything that made her nervous or took her out of her comfort zone. As took this journey a crazy thing happened the very act of doing the things that scared her undid the fear. “It’s amazing the power of one word. ‘Yes’ changed my life. ‘Yes’ changed me.”
She talked about one particular time she said yes that made more difference than any other. She made a vow that every time one of her kids asked her to play, she would say yes. She said saying yes to playing with her children likely saved her career. Shonda Rhimes is a television writer something most people would consider a dream job. “But I understand a dream job is not about dreaming it’s all job, all work, all reality, all blood, all sweat, no tears”. She has three shows in production at a time sometimes four, she’s responsible for 70 hours of TV a season.
There is this felling she sometimes gets she calls it the hum. “The hum sounds like an open road and I could drive it forever. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God’s whisper right in my