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Dana White: commitment

25 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #421 – Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

“All these nights that I play are little battles inside the war that I will fight in ’24.”

— Dana White

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Dana White
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commitment
Recorded
25 Mar 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…How do you deal with those psychologically? When you gamble, maybe this applies to fighting too, do you love winning or hate losing more? They go hand in hand. The way that I play is I live in Vegas, so 2024 is a war for me. I go to war in ’24. Okay. All these nights that I play are little battles inside the war that I will fight in ’24. Now, at the end of the year, we will tally up all these little battles and see where I stand on wins and losses. And there’s lots of talk out there about my gambling, places that I’ve been kicked out of and things like that. And I do pretty well. I do pretty well, but it’s what I like to do. I don’t gamble in a way that I would ever hurt myself or hurt my family. I’m sure you’ve heard the Norm MacDonald stories. Norm MacDonald lost his entire personal wealth four times or something like that. Yeah, that’s not going to happen to me. You manage it, but just psychologically you’re able to be even keel.…

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