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22 Mar 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

“I can just feel it. It’s like something inside of me that’s kind of… I don’t know how to say it other than it like wants to get out but I don’t really know what that is.”

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22 Mar 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah, yeah. I can just feel it. It’s like something inside of me that’s kind of… I don’t know how to say it other than it like wants to get out but I don’t really know what that is. It’s not anger, but it’s not… It’s very anxious. It’s like the opposite of the feeling I have when I wake up in the morning and I’m feeling good, and I look out in nature and look at the sun and just, and there’s like a bird chirping and this kind of thing. Scrolling through social media, even if it’s like super positive stuff or whatever, it’s still not the same feeling as the bird chirping. Bird chirping on Instagram is a different bird chirping than in real life, cause bird chirping on Instagram, I’ll start swiping until there’s demons of different types fighting inside my head and then different anxiety, insecurity, whatever the hell. Just the mixture of chaos versus the bird chirping in real life. That is beautiful. But again, that’s the same thing as with the audiobook. It boils down to… Man, these people that talk about meditation, I think that’s probably… they’re onto something, because that’s what it is be able to like focus calmly and deliberately on a thing, whether it’s reading or audiobook or existence. When they sort of observe the breath, you’re able to silent out everything else and remove everything else from focus. Yeah. That’s a skill. That’s a skill.…

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