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Neil Adams: belief

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

“I think there’s two kinds of commentating. You can commentate what you see and then you commentate what people can’t see.”

— Neil Adams

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Speaker
Neil Adams
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Apr 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah, part of the drama is in the silence, building up to the setup and the throw and all that kind of stuff. But also you’re very good at, while radiating passion, being very precise and specific about the details of the throw and the setup and why something worked and didn’t. I think there’s two kinds of commentating. You can commentate what you see and then you commentate what people can’t see. And so if you’ve got somebody that is not really understanding of what’s happening in the inner part of the game, so it might be a technical thing or it might be the tactical part of the play here that’s going on. And if you can introduce that, as well, then you’ve got an advantage. Quick pause. I need a bathroom break.=…

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