Eric Rothman - Eric Rothman

A confidence rooted, according to Mark Proksch — who plays a lousy, clueless Hollywood impersonator and actor in On Cinema and its spinoff, Decker — in Heidecker’s “ability to ignore the negative voices in his head that the rest of us listen to when it comes to actually pursuing and accomplishing something. Which is not to say he’s overly confident... See more

To challenge your misery, try science. Give it a real chance. Work at thinking rationally, sticking to reality, checking your hypotheses about yourself, about other people, and about the world. Check them against the best observations and facts that you can find. Stop being a Pollyanna. Give up pie-in-the-sky. Uproot your easy-to-come-by wishful th

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For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an

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So taking the experimental mindset, I decided to test out a new theory. First, I would start assuming I was good and had my heart in the right place, instead of a rickety monster that had to be held in check and put on a tight leash. Second, anything I did that was bad or wrong or unhealthy, I would just tell myself it was a layer of plaster on top

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