Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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29 published records
01 / belief
“I’ve never really put it that way, but I think that’s right actually. I think you just chill out a bit, takes things a little less seriously.”
02 / belief
“I’m going to be the watcher. And what I learned was I’m watching these thoughts go by and there’s a consistent other presence.”
03 / belief
“The other extreme, but they’re in-between would be very probably Peruvian ceremonies, where you’re probably going to go, very much about you do it in a community, you do it with others, and you feel people go through their pain and their processing. So I know the whole gamut, but the thing that I found most powerful about it and profoundly powerful, I would say, first of all, it’s non-recreational.”
04 / uncertainty
“For sure, all of the defenses were up. I don’t know else to describe it. But there was denial.”
05 / evaluation
“For the average person that might go to Whole Foods or a grocery store, I think the simplicity of a good steak, it is important to get good sourcing, but also it’s just good.”
06 / belief
“I would say if we have an openness to learning, which does require humility, and you course correct or you help get other people to help you course correct.”
07 / belief
“We’re very well known, very well respected, and we do have to live up to the name. I think that our restaurant lives up to its name in not just the food.”
08 / belief
“I was in 2010 and I think that… And I broke my neck and I can go into that story in a moment, but this was different.”
09 / belief
“I would say for me there’s things that make me feel really good, but they’re not rules.”
10 / belief
“” I think the real transformative thing for Tesla was the Model 3 when we were able to get the price down for the world.”
11 / evaluation
“There’s a story that Walter Isaacson writes about where Elon got beat up pretty bad and you were there, and then you also had to watch your dad yell at Elon for an hour, calling him worthless, all those kinds of things. You said it was the worst memory of your life.”
12 / belief
“First of all, I think that also kicks off the magic. If you screw it up and you’re like, “Oh, maybe this is not for me.”
13 / belief
“I think the thing that I absolutely love about running the restaurant, not eating at it but running the restaurant is the tangible reaction from people.”
14 / belief
“All of those things. I think that one of the most beautiful lessons was actually scrambled eggs.”
15 / belief
“Otherwise you do miss out, just like you said, hay fever. I think if you want to be really safe, you should never leave your home.”
16 / belief
“I have learned that you really want to celebrate your successes because even in the greater scheme of things, I’ve learned this in the startup world where you are constantly facing death.”
17 / belief
“Yeah, but I think alcohol is different because you’re usually standing when you’re doing alcohol.”
18 / belief
“I think coming back to the point of low value of human life, they tried to kill him.”
19 / belief
“I learned about Mother Ayahuasca where you have this experience of talking to… Actually, I would say the closest thing to breaking my neck, that feeling was ayahuasca.”
20 / observation
“If you look up for a second, you’re going to miss the perfect moment where you have to stop and get those eggs out of the pan because the eggs will keep cooking.”
21 / preference
“I love the gathering place and I love putting people together in person and I love to have vibrant debates and conversations.”
22 / evaluation
“My mom, she’s wonderful, but she is self-admittedly a bad cook. But at the time it was, and I think anyone with kids goes through this, your kids just want something like spaghetti bolognese or a burger or something.”
23 / preference
“Not to say that America can’t get better, but please go try another country,” because not having that perspective or having a perspective that, I don’t know, they’ll catch up on their shoulder about the country that they’re in.”
24 / evaluation
“I don’t know the depth of their personal experience of the different kinds of communists-like systems, but it was fascinating to listen to and then get to know them and the humanity, the weirdness, like the characters.”
25 / preference
“Yeah, pretty much. Actually, I will say there’s another one, garlic. This is my favorite recipe for a steak.”
26 / evaluation
“I mean, if someone in my community passes away, it’s very, very sad for me. And when you go to a place where, or live, grow up in a place where that human life is not valued, there’s something about, there’s a little bit less of the social vacuum created because everyone is kind of expecting everyone to potentially be taken out at any moment.”
27 / commitment
“He was really [inaudible 00:09:59], but I’m not connected to him, but he taught me, the phrase I used to have was he taught me what not to do, so I still actually learned a lot.”
28 / commitment
“Again, you’re there for a while, so you’re not in a rush to jump in and argue. And then I shared that I was there, and I think because I had been willing to listen to him, he was willing to listen to me.”
29 / belief
“Our nonprofit’s called Big Green and we work with 150 nonprofits around the country to help Americans grow food again, get connected to their food because I really believe growing food changes your life.”