Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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33 published records
01 / recommendation
“So I’m reading an amazing book called An Immense World by Ed Yong. He won a Pulitzer for We Contain Multitudes or something like that, I think is the title of the other book.”
02 / recommendation
“The comments, I love the comments on YouTube because occasionally they’re funny because.”
03 / belief
“Just to pause on that, one thing to do, I think, by way of advice, is listen to people who are in long-term successful relationships.”
04 / belief
“I’ve trained really hard from all my life, in grappling sports and fighting sports and all this kind of stuff, and I’ve avoided injury for the most part. And I would say, I would attribute that to training a lot.”
05 / belief
“I’m talking about from both sides, male, female or whatever sides, but where it’s like assets and liabilities. And that’s where it starts getting into those complicated contracts early on, I think.”
06 / uncertainty
“We had set it up and he was just so happy there. And I think, I don’t know, it was this weird victory slash massive loss.”
07 / belief
“Somebody asked if Andrew Huberman has a girlfriend, and somebody says, “I think so.”
08 / belief
“I think perhaps a part of that is just the humility that comes with acknowledging there’s something bigger and more powerful than you.”
09 / belief
“I think Elon is a huge believer of this idea of the most entertaining outcome is the most likely and there is almost the sense that there’s not a free will.”
10 / belief
“I think in the next five, 10 years, we’re going to see a dramatic shift towards more discussion about sexual and reproductive health in a way that acknowledges that, yeah, the clitoris comes from the same origin tissue as the penis. And in many ways the neural innervation of the two, while clearly different, has some overlapping features that there’s going to be discussion around anatomy and hormones and pelvic floors in a way that’s going to erode some of the cloaking of these topics because they’ve been cloaked for a long time and there’s a lot of… Well, let’s just call it what it is.”
11 / evaluation
“The trust piece is huge and that’s where people start, we don’t want to focus on what works, not what doesn’t work, but that’s where, I think, people start engaging in these covert contracts.”
12 / belief
“Look, he wants to really do it at the Coliseum. And the Coliseum is for 400 years, there’s so much great writing about this, I think over 400,000 people have died in the Coliseum, gladiators.”
13 / belief
“Since we brought up Chimp Empire, let me ask you about relationships. I think we’ve talked about relationships.”
14 / belief
“The inner and the outer peace. It’s been over two years, I think, since Costello passed away.”
15 / belief
“I suppose it could, but I think the friendship piece is extremely important, because what’s required in a successful relationship, clearly is joy in being together, trust, a desire to share experience, both mundane and more adventurous, support each other, acceptance, a real, maybe even admiration, but certainly delight, in being with the person.”
16 / belief
“I’ve written so much about it and I just don’t know why I can’t finish it. I have trouble really… I think I’m terrified being in front of the camera.”
17 / belief
“People will pair up along creative-creative or musical-musical or computer scientists. But I think, again, going back to this Conti episode on relationships is that the superficial labels are less important, it seems, than just the desire to create that kind of home life and relationship together.”
18 / belief
“I think Deisseroth, when he was on here, your podcast, mentioned something that, I think the words were… Or maybe it was in his book, I don’t recall.”
19 / belief
“There’s a lot of variable, but there haven’t been systematic studies. So I think probably the best thing to do, unless they’re going to do IVF, is just roll the dice.”
20 / belief
“I was sore for two weeks, but I learned a lot and didn’t get injured, and yes, we ate bow-hunted elk afterwards.”
21 / belief
“I think one of the benefits of having this characteristic of mine, where I value loyalty, I’ve been extremely fortunate to spend most of my life in overt relationships and I think that creates a really fulfilling life.”
22 / belief
“I think, based on my experience, and based on input from friends, who themselves have very successful relationships, I must say, I’ve got friends who are in long-term, monogamous, very happy relationships, where there seems to be a lot of love, a lot of laughter, a lot of challenge and a lot of growth.”
23 / belief
“I think that’s what Costello wanted, I think, I have this story in my head that he was just like, “Okay, take this like a kid.”
24 / evaluation
“I never liked the phrase history repeats itself when it comes to humans because it doesn’t apply if the people or the person is actively working to resolve their own flaws.”
25 / recommendation
“I only rolled jiu jitsu with you once but there was a period of time where I boxed which I don’t recommend.”
26 / preference
“I think loyalty is a good thing to cling to, provided that when loyalty is broken, that it doesn’t disrupt too many other areas of your life.”
27 / evaluation
“I think the shadow parts of us are very important to come to understand and look better to understand them and know that they’re there and work with them than to not acknowledge their presence and have them surface in the form of addictions or behaviors that damage us in other people.”
28 / prediction
“” I mean, I have this theory that certainly my experience has taught me that a lot of people but I’ll talk about men because that’s what I know best, whether or not they show up strong or not, that they’re really afraid of being weak.”
29 / evaluation
“This is advanced contracting of behavior for a species that normally we don’t think of as sophisticated as us. So it’s very interesting and it gets to something that I hope we’ll have an opportunity to talk about because it’s something that I’m obsessed with lately, is this notion of overt versus covert contracts, right?”
30 / preference
“engage with people socially and not be podcasting 24 hours a day in your head is key. But I think I love learning and researching and finding those papers and the information, and I love teaching it.”
31 / evaluation
“Overt contracts are the signature of all things good. And I think about this a lot because I’ve seen a lot of examples of this.”
32 / evaluation
“I think my cognition is better when I’m doing more cardio and when the repetition ranges are a little bit or higher, which is not to say that people who lift heavy are dumb, but there is a… Because there’s real value in lifting heavy.”
33 / evaluation
“I will say this, that four episode series with Paul is at least to date, the most important work I’ve ever been involved in in all of my career because it’s very clear that we are not taught how to explore our subconscious and that very few people actually understand how to do that.”