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20 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset
“As we’re older and as I’ve become older, I’ve calmed down, but it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, it’s still that will to win.”
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- Neil Adams
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- 20 Apr 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Is that true or were you just being poetic? It’s not far off. No. When I think about it now, I’d like to think that I’m a different person now. And since I’ve kind of calmed down, I see athletes now and I see them and their kind of arrogance, their walk, and it’s a strut and it’s a kind of a confidence, isn’t it? As we’re older and as I’ve become older, I’ve calmed down, but it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, it’s still that will to win. And I’m much better at masking it now if I don’t. But it still bothers me as much. You’re talking about like… I don’t know, even just stupid, silly things. Like I don’t know, a game of pool or something like this or just anything.…
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