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Published · transcript-backedTerence Tao: observation
15 Jun 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
“You talk to athletes like marathon runners and so forth and they talk about what’s the most important thing, is it the training regimen or the diet and so forth? So much of it is psychology, just tricking yourself to think that the problem is feasible so that you’re motivated to do it.”
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- Terence Tao
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- 15 Jun 2025
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…It’s when you really don’t want to do a thing that you imagine a thing you don’t want to do more that’s worse than that and then in that way, you procrastinate by not doing the thing that’s worse. It’s a nice hack, it actually works. Yeah, yeah. With anything, psychology is really important. You talk to athletes like marathon runners and so forth and they talk about what’s the most important thing, is it the training regimen or the diet and so forth? So much of it is psychology, just tricking yourself to think that the problem is feasible so that you’re motivated to do it. Is there something our human mind will never be able to comprehend?…
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