My dad, Abraham Pais, was a famous theoretical physicist who worked with Einstein, Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer and all the leading scientists of his day. When I was a kid I went to quite a few lunches or dinners that were given in my dad’s honor. The table would be full of scientists that looked […]
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How to Create a Character: Lick the Spoon
My hands are trembling when I’m in front of the room. What do I do?
Last week I was on MarieTV talking about Committed Impulse. If you haven’t checked out the segment – it’s right here… Overcoming Shyness and Fear. After the interview went live, I answered a lot of questions online. A lot of people said that there were certain emotions that made them shake, sweat, get blotchy, and […]
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As many of you have heard, Marie, Kuma and I were in a car crash on Sunday. We’re shaken up, our car is totaled, but we’re lucky to have come out of it fine. Driving down a quiet street in Venice, Ca., on our way back from picking up some groceries at Trader Joe’s, someone […]
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This has never happened This You reading This Sure you’ve read other blogs And you’ve probably read CI blogs But that’s not the point Look, our minds want to categorize EVERYTHING so we experience NOTHING Only prob is – when we listen to our mind it ends up telling us that we’re… *doing this wrong […]
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Ya know… in every day life when ya meet someone… And, ya know – in your gut, if ya just stayed in touch it could possibly lead to work, creation or at least a friendship. That ever happen to ya? But ya don’t wanna be pushy. We gotta know when to override our second-guessing mind. […]
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