Kunal Nayyar: Stay Present & Know Yourself
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Mayim's reunion with Big Bang Theory co-star explores Kunal's childhood and path to becoming an actor - including getting punched in the face by Mark Harmon on NCIS. While Kunal is known for his acting, his instagram account Buddha in Jeans shares deep spiritual wisdom which Kunal brings with him to this episode. He discusses the importance of seeing past perception and shares how his experiences of anxiety and debilitating panic attacks led him to hypnotherapy and a modern day path of self-discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | The mind creates the fear and then the mind creates the angst to get over the fear. |
| 0:07.6 | So I realized I'm thinking about the fear and I'm thinking about getting over the fear. |
| 0:13.0 | It was a big aha moment for me to realize, oh, I can't outthink thinking. |
| 0:17.7 | People who have an accent like you, it's like everything you say sounds wise. |
| 0:22.2 | I am looking at you and I'm listening to your words and I'm thinking, what if he looked |
| 0:25.9 | like, you know, the captain of the football team in a 1950s movie? |
| 0:29.9 | Are you saying that my fear doesn't go on? |
| 0:31.6 | Your Canadian accent conjures something totally different for me. |
| 0:34.7 | You look like an NBA analyst. |
| 0:36.3 | Ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, I'm Iambialic and welcome to my breakdown. |
| 0:41.3 | This is the place where I break things down so you don't have to. |
| 0:44.7 | It's my ambialic's breakdown. |
| 0:47.0 | She's going to break it down for you because you know she loves a thing or two. |
| 0:53.0 | And now she's going to break down. |
| 0:54.8 | It's a breakdown. |
| 0:56.0 | She's going to break it down. |
| 0:58.3 | Today we're going to be breaking down knowing yourself with Kunal Nehyeh who played Raj on |
| 1:06.4 | the Big Bang Theory for 13 years, nine of which I was working with him. |
| 1:11.8 | And Kunal is a really, really interesting and I would say extraordinary, like out of the |
| 1:18.4 | ordinary person, both in the industry and just in life in general. |
| 1:23.4 | And he is going to break down a lot about the journey that he went on essentially while |
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