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Lex Fridman: belief

20 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

“I think the way he spoke about it is you can’t always control nutrition, so it’s best to get good at having crappy nutrition.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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belief
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20 Apr 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…I do. I mean the diet side of it, its difficult to really admit that, isn’t it that you went to an Olympic Games and the one thing that you really sucked at, right, was one of the most important things now at world level sport. Where you’ve got the nutrition, we’ve got it, you would think that most people have got it sorted, but there’s still people making mistakes and still people that haven’t got it totally sorted. And then there’s people like Travis Stevens who I think doesn’t care. He’ll just have atrocious nutrition and he just makes it work. I think the way he spoke about it is you can’t always control nutrition, so it’s best to get good at having crappy nutrition. That’s a good way of looking at it. I never, yeah, maybe that’s what I did.…

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