have there was an accident in the transporter and I basically said guys this is one of those scenes you're going to get me a PG on I want Nails on a chalkboard just it you have to have chills down your spine when you see this because it's horribleso uh lastly I'll mention one one other thing that's kind of interesting just before you go into
I was insanely proud of this. Look at that chalkboard . That's hilarious. And of course I used Comic Sans.
So I'm going to try, while I give the speech, to do a painting. My version of a chalkboard painting. It's kind of odd because I may have to turn my back on you a little bit, and I've never actually done a painting for an audience.
The teacher had a stick, was drawing in the dirt. That was their chalkboard . They had no books.
will do this." He used this system which he didn't invent but he discovered called BLUF. If I had a chalkboard here I'd write it but b-l-u-f, bottom line up front. And what he would do is basically give a preamble to his email saying, "I'm gonna cover, A, B, C, and D." So he put the person on notice saying, "I'm covering multiple topics and these are the topics I'm gonna cover." Now I tried doing that but unfortunately everybody would email me back and say, "What's BLUF,"
with an idea there was a classroom at Harvard in Harvard Law the brand-new classrooms twenty-five million dollar building they have chalkboards do you know why they have chalkboards is because they found that people seem to learn best when they pick up a piece of chalk and write so I said if we're gonna talk about something that complicated why don't we go retro go retro and then
And we're making tiny movement forward and some progress. And it became like fingernails on the chalkboard .
during this uh cooking school I realized that I wasn't going to learn how to cook because every day we would just sit in front of a uh bu uh chalkboard and take notes or basically watch a teacher demonstrate but there was no Hands-On and so I decided that I would a ask one
So if your goal isn't to build relationships with every single person, don't stay in the heart realm. or if it's always someone ranting with the chalkboard or whiteboard, change the environment.
So I'll just mix a little bit by hand here. And you'll sometimes see on a farm like a little chalkboard , where they'll start checking off how many days, what it is.
I You see a canvas up here. One of my new series of works is called the Chalkboard Series. So I'm going to try, while I give the speech, to do a painting.
I mean I didn't see any astronomers who looked like me when I was a kid I mean I think you know my my image was like Albert Einstein right this like older white man with you know I don't know glasses and white hair and just is in front of a chalkboard and is a genius um that was my expectation of what an astronomer looked like and part of that is because those are the images that are fed to us when we're kids I mean it was bad to me I only knew of men in physics and astronomy
chalk and write so I said if we're gonna talk about something that complicated why don't we go retro go retro and then your next presentation instead of putting up a PowerPoint slide go to chalkboard and see what happens you know a totally change the way he was approaching that particular topic which is extraordinarily complex but again all
And most of those scientists were doing completely boring things. They worked on pencil and paper and maybe they wrote on the chalkboard and erased it the next day. But Johnny Von Neumann had a building out back where he was building a computer.
vocational audience um there's about uh you know 30 PE 30 uh young men between 20 to 40 sitting in a room um basically facing a chalkboard the whole time and learning by roach and um it was a real it was a very quick education
You definitely don't want to try to save all human knowledge on your computer. I'll never forget doing a brainstorm on one of these very ancient chalkboards , where we did a simple brainstorm,
is not really life. And one of the things out of the three things that he's written sort of on his kitchen chalkboard -- go round mum's is one, get Liz back, sort life out. Sort life out. Because Liz tells him in the first scene of the movie, I don't want to do this anymore.
They then ran back to their cars and drove the speed limit the entire way home, terrified over what had just happened. to think about what you've had the luxury to forget, to consider what your chalkboard would say.
I took really good care of the design of the table, and I had chalkboards , and it was cute, but my stove wasn't working because I
It wasn't a shock, in this case, it was a horrible noise, like loud nails down a chalkboard .
And it's almost like a call and repeat, where the teacher will call out a lesson and they'll write on the chalkboard , and the students just have to repeat
And the idea of a crunchy peach, for me, is just like fingers on a chalkboard .
Here's your Room to Read college scholarship. Yeah, the animals buy a fishbowl, they scoop up Baby Fish, they walk to the fish's school, plunk him down in front of the chalkboard and voila, Baby
me. I still don't really like doing video, but I put videos of myself interviewing CEO's and executives so you get to meet my own uncle. And I also gave like chalkboard lectures and