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What Lex Fridman says about fasting

Everything Lex Fridman and guests said about fasting across 9 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Argues AI systems that interact meaningfully with humans must have suffering, including depression, engineered in as part of consciousness.
00:03:35Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Admits he was a popular kid in Russia but became a total outcast after moving to America, which shaped his worldview.
00:06:11Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Says if he could ask an alien only one thing it would be for life advice to help humanity survive, hoping for a Naval-style answer.
00:18:08Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Now considers social media the greatest threat among AI risks, a shift from his earlier more balanced view.
00:53:46Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Changed his mind that extraterrestrial life and consciousness are worthy of serious scientific investigation.
00:55:34Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Reveals he orders plain McDonald's beef patties for a dollar fifty without buns to stay keto.
01:08:33Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Says his darkest times came from putting faith in people who turned out not to be their best selves.
01:10:05Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Believes humans are fundamentally alone, 'trapped in this conscious meat vessel between our ears.'
00:07:44Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Has a script that finds files with spaces in their names and renames them with underscores after confirmation.
00:22:48Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Calls passion and Google the two essential skills for learning computer science today.
00:25:57Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Sees happiness as a side effect of a life well lived and a useful signal, not a goal in itself.
00:32:43Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Approaches diet as a 'nutritional scientist running a study of n of one,' studying only himself.
01:00:46Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Discovered intermittent fasting about 15 years ago and found he could eat once a day and still train multiple times.
01:01:16Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Says keto combined with fasting gives him greater stable, prolonged mental focus for deep work.
01:04:56Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Is reading about the ethics of veganism and reconsidering his meat-heavy diet.
01:09:34Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2021
Huberman calls it mind-blowing that the master circadian clock coordinates every organ in the body simply by oscillating temperature.
00:09:53Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
He pushes back on sleep anxiety, arguing science has 'gone too far' and that you can function well on disrupted sleep if you stay calm.
00:18:12Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
He claims there's no evidence eight hours beats six, and consistency of sleep duration matters more than total amount.
00:23:27Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Citing Satchin Panda's work, mice eating freely but only within a restricted window stayed lean while the same food spread over 24 hours made them fat and sick.
01:01:15Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Lex describes the 'hack' of telling himself he feels good while running and actually starting to feel better, which Huberman frames as real biology.
00:57:37Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Huberman frames REM dreaming as self-induced trauma therapy where you replay intense emotion with epinephrine switched off.
01:21:22Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
A Nature paper from UC Davis shows chemists modifying psychedelics to keep neuroplasticity while removing the hallucinogenic component.
01:37:18Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Lex reveals he privately archived and processed Joe Rogan's entire YouTube video catalog to do blink and pupil tracking research.
02:06:37Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Huberman jokes he avoids 'why' questions because he 'wasn't consulted at the design phase' of human biology.
00:01:35Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Your temperature minimum sits about two hours before your natural wake time and is a key landmark for shifting your circadian clock with light.
00:14:32Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
A 20-minute non-sleep deep rest protocol can reset basal ganglia dopamine to post-sleep levels, per a Danish study.
00:25:30Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Inhaling speeds the heart up and exhaling slows it down, the basis of heart rate variability you can manipulate in real time.
00:46:13Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Testosterone's main effect is to make effort feel good, and cholesterol gets diverted toward either cortisol or testosterone, not both.
00:54:31Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Salt and electrolytes, not sugar, often fix the shakiness people feel while fasting.
01:08:29Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
London taxi drivers' hippocampal place cells replay their city routes during sleep, the same spatial replay seen in rodents.
01:18:18Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
MDMA is unusual because it elevates dopamine and serotonin simultaneously, a state Huberman says may have never before existed in human history.
01:38:20Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Acetylcholine from the nucleus basalis can permanently rewire the neocortex around a focused event, a basis for accelerated learning.
01:56:53Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Every blink resets your perception of time via a dopaminergic mechanism, and alert people blink less.
02:10:48Andrew Huberman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Feb 2021
Square took credit-card approval rates from ~30-40% industry norm to 99% by reframing risk at the transaction level instead of the merchant level.
00:12:03Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey says Square's biggest problem is it can't act like a true internet company, and Bitcoin as a native internet currency could let them launch in every market at once.
00:16:13Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Lex jokingly asks if Jack is Satoshi Nakamoto; Dorsey deflects without a clear denial.
00:23:04Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey cites Harari's worry that algorithms like Google know our preferences better than we do, offloading our self-awareness.
00:32:28Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey discusses eating only one meal a day and intermittent fasting, describing it as feeling like a superpower.
00:41:29Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey says he thinks about death multiple times a day and uses it as a tool to clarify what matters.
00:46:14Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Jack moved $1 billion of Square equity (28% of his wealth) to fund COVID-19 relief, posting all donations to a public Google Doc.
00:00:30Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey describes himself as a hacker at heart rather than a legit software engineer.
00:03:39Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Square shifted the financial industry's mindset from distrust to 'trust and then verify.'
00:11:30Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey calls the Bitcoin white paper one of the most seminal computer-science works in 20-30 years and 'poetry.'
00:17:47Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
In Ethiopia, the local Uber/Lyft founder's biggest problem was simply paying riders and drivers, stunting growth.
00:21:30Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey argues the chasm to general intelligence is the ability to explain the why and meaning behind a decision.
00:26:43Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
He warns the technology to create fakes is moving faster than the technology to detect them.
00:30:21Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Dorsey got the one-meal-a-day idea from hearing Wim Hof on a podcast.
00:43:33Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
As a child Dorsey was so shy he needed a speech therapist, then joined a speech club to overcome it.
00:44:39Jack Dorsey · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2020
Modi reveals he specially invited Pakistan to his swearing-in ceremony as Prime Minister to turn over a new leaf, but says every peace attempt was met with hostility and betrayal.
00:01:38Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Modi says a scrutiny process he launched after taking office in 2014 found and removed 100 million fake or duplicate names from government welfare schemes, saving nearly 3 trillion rupees via Direct Benefit Transfer.
01:38:50Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Modi states he can sit with Putin and tell him 'this is not the time for war,' and tell Zelensky there will never be a resolution on the battlefield, declaring he is not neutral but stands with peace.
01:17:45Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Modi reveals that after his recent meeting with President Xi, India and China have returned to normalcy at the border, working to restore pre-2020 conditions after a five-year gap.
01:43:52Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
The conversation addresses the 2002 Gujarat riots; it is noted India's independent Supreme Court twice (2012 and 2022) upheld that Modi had no involvement in the violence.
01:48:48Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Modi makes a bold claim that 'no matter what the world does with AI, it will remain incomplete without India,' arguing no nation can develop AI entirely on its own.
02:32:02Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Modi recounts persuading President Trump to walk a lap around the packed Houston 'Howdy Modi' stadium into a crowd of thousands without hesitation, throwing his entire security detail off guard.
01:30:49Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Lex Fridman fasted for 45 hours (nearly two days) on only water in honor of the conversation to get into the right spiritual mindset.
00:00:35Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Modi follows the Chaturmas tradition of eating only one meal per 24 hours for about four and a half months, and during nine-day Navratri fasts drinks only hot water or eats a single fruit once a day.
00:17:48Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
At a White House dinner, Modi joked to President Obama 'Look, my dinner has arrived!' as he placed a glass of hot water in front of himself while fasting.
00:20:34Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Excavations in Modi's birthplace Vadnagar uncovered evidence dating back 2,800 years, proving the city has been continuously inhabited; the Chinese philosopher Hiuen Tsang spent time there as a Buddhist learning center.
00:25:28Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
As a poor child, Modi collected leftover chalk pieces from classrooms, soaked them into a paste, and used it to polish his white canvas shoes bright again.
00:30:25Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
India's 2024 general elections had 980 million registered voters, of whom 646 million voted, using over one million polling booths, with results announced within a day.
02:09:30Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
India set up a polling booth in the Gir Forest for a single voter, and uses helicopters to transport polling stations to remote areas like high-altitude Arunachal Pradesh.
02:11:37Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
India's Chandrayaan moon mission cost less than what Hollywood spends making a single blockbuster film.
02:38:27Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
When asked if he fears death, Modi turns the question around, noting that of life and death only death is certain, so there is no use fearing what is inevitable.
02:54:35Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Lex describes Indian traffic as the world's most difficult test for self-driving cars, comparing it to swarms of fish moving in seeming chaos yet working like a tuned orchestra.
03:09:20Narendra Modi · Lex Fridman Podcast · Mar 2025
Peterson admits fame has corrupted him 'no doubt in some regard' and says he surrounds himself with critics to keep from spiraling.
00:30:21Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Says he was 'ready to die a year ago' and not casually, after years of severe illness.
00:33:38Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Reveals he currently has 10 lawsuits from the College of Psychologists and has been 'cancelled like 40 times.'
01:00:38Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Calls Trudeau a narcissist and argues his father Pierre 'devastated the west in 1982' with the National Energy Policy.
01:08:59Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Restates the contested fourth reason he gave for the Ukraine war — Putin casting Russia as a 'salvific force' against Western wokeism — that drew criticism.
01:18:46Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Credits an all-meat diet with eliminating his psoriasis, incurable gum disease, eye cloudiness, and 50 pounds of weight.
02:04:58Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Argues The Brothers Karamazov may be the greatest book ever written, surpassing Crime and Punishment.
02:51:39Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Peterson recounts Elon Musk offhandedly saying death 'would be a relief.'
00:34:40Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Cites estimates that a coming famine could leave 1.2 billion people food insecure, far above UN figures.
00:47:37Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Notes Holland is the world's number two exporter of agricultural products despite being smaller than Massachusetts.
00:48:39Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Relays comedian Jimmy Carr's view that stand-up is 'the most dialogical enterprise,' refined by testing material in 50 clubs.
01:31:42Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Peterson eats only steak and water, three or four times a day, and travels with air fryers he leaves behind worldwide.
01:34:48Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Describes discovering fat-adapted endurance running and the mental clarity of intermittent fasting.
02:06:32Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Claims young men who do the 90-minute future-authoring exercise are 50% less likely to drop out of college.
02:31:32Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Does live math estimating life is roughly two hundred 5-minute chunks per day, arguing you should get the mundane ones right.
02:36:41Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Announces an upcoming Dostoevsky and Nietzsche course for Peterson Academy starting in January.
02:54:13Jordan Peterson · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2022
Sinclair reports a Nature paper showing three embryonic genes can reset tissue age and restore sight in blind mice within four to eight weeks.
00:36:15David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
He says human trials of age-reversal reprogramming are less than two years away.
00:37:50David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
He claims aging can be boiled down to a single equation: loss of information due to entropy, inspired by Claude Shannon.
00:22:49David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
His lab can age mice on a 'rheostat,' making a mouse old in months by inducing DNA breaks, then measure age via the epigenome.
00:33:41David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
He calls human bodies pathetic, noting a chimpanzee could knock any human's head off, so we must engineer our own longevity.
00:21:18David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Sinclair flatly rejects the idea that death gives life meaning, saying for him it's completely wrong.
01:33:30David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
He states the current hard limit of human lifespan is 122 years, but argues there's no fundamental biological reason we must die.
00:31:06David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Mice live ~2-3 years and breed fast, while bowhead whales live hundreds of years because they sit atop the food chain.
00:20:47David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
A study of 10,000 mice found that WHEN you eat matters more than what you eat; only once-a-day eaters lived longer.
00:57:08David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Sinclair's lab first showed how calorie restriction extends lifespan via sirtuin genes in yeast.
00:50:54David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
'Xenohormetic' molecules like resveratrol come from stressed plants and activate our own longevity defenses.
01:01:47David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
An FDA-approved chest biosensor can send heart-attack patients home early, saving hospitals ~$2,000 per patient.
00:14:29David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Sinclair contrasts his low-willpower one-meal-a-day approach with Joe Rogan's keto-plus-intense-exercise lifestyle.
00:55:34David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Restricting sleep in a rat for just two weeks gives it type 2 diabetes.
01:10:06David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Eating well, not overeating, light exercise, good sleep, and low stress add an average of about 14 years of life.
01:25:13David Sinclair · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jun 2021
Walker argues humans are nearly the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no biological reason, so evolution never built a 'safety net' for sleep loss like the fat cell for famine.
00:06:44Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
He calls sleep 'the most idiotic thing' from an evolutionary view yet present in every species studied, so it must serve vital functions.
00:09:20Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Drinking caffeine in the evening can cut deep sleep by 10-30% even if you fall asleep fine; dropping deep sleep 20% is like aging 15 years.
00:49:22Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Walker says it was Mendeleev's sleeping brain, not his waking brain, that snapped the periodic table into a logical grid in a dream.
01:13:15Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Keith Richards reportedly recorded the 'Satisfaction' riff in his sleep, followed by 43 minutes of snoring on the tape.
01:16:20Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
No individual is resilient to sleep loss across all domains; everyone is vulnerable in at least one (cognition, mood, blood pressure, etc.).
01:39:32Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Walker uses mortality as a 'retrospective lens' to course-correct his life, saying he thinks about death constantly but does not fear it.
01:50:22Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
In 20 years of research, he has not found a single psychiatric condition in which sleep is normal.
02:44:12Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Falling asleep versus just lying awake on the couch only saves about 140-150 calories, debunking the energy-conservation theory of sleep.
00:10:51Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Caffeine has a ~5-6 hour half-life and 10-12 hour quarter-life, so a noon coffee leaves a quarter of the caffeine in your brain at midnight.
00:51:27Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
The gene CYP1A2 controls caffeine clearance speed, making some people's half-life as short as 2 hours and others 8-9 hours.
00:52:30Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Walker describes forgetting as 'the price we pay for remembering,' arguing the brain has finite storage and benefits from letting go.
01:09:36Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
He likens waking thought to a successful Google search and dream sleep to landing on 'page 20'—finding distant, non-obvious creative connections.
01:10:07Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
A recent Harvard study found polyphasic sleep is associated with worse physical, cognitive, and especially mood outcomes.
01:33:50Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
During fasting (e.g., Ramadan), melatonin drops and shifts later, REM sleep decreases, and the wake-promoting chemical orexin rises.
02:18:32Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
REM sleep is the only time in 24 hours the brain is completely devoid of noradrenaline, enabling loose associative memory processing.
02:35:42Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Sleep deprivation hits positive emotions harder than negative ones, producing anhedonia—the loss of pleasure central to depression.
02:39:50Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
After ~20 hours awake, a person is as cognitively impaired as if legally drunk.
02:10:45Matt Walker · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021
Strict rule: he checks social media only when he posts, one to three times a day for no more than 10 minutes.
00:01:31Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
His morning mantra includes meditating on the idea that today might be his last day alive.
00:02:33Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Describes being 'single' but in an 'open relationship' with his guitar, cheating on the electric with the acoustic.
00:09:46Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Does a David Goggins-inspired nickel-and-dime workout: 5 pull-ups and 10 push-ups every minute for 15-20 minutes.
00:11:19Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Trains and runs completely fasted, 14-16 hours without food, taking a salt pill for electrolytes.
00:11:49Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Eats just one meal a day on keto: about two pounds of 85% grass-fed ground beef plus vegetables, ~1800-2000 calories.
00:19:04Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Re-reading Dostoevsky's major novels in both English and Russian to prepare for an upcoming Paris interview with translators.
00:31:04Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Reveals the podcast is fundamentally a side gig to a 'main dream' he is quietly still putting hours into.
00:34:48Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
He says he has more sponsors than he needs, so he only accepts ones he genuinely loves using.
00:00:30Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Calls moderating social media harder than quitting it entirely, which he sees as an easy way out.
00:02:03Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Dreads the daily four-hour deep-work session but hits it first thing, early, like a machine, without reflecting.
00:05:08Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Likens his Fender Strat's 'warm boozy sound' to Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.
00:09:15Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Believes his ability to thrive fasted is rooted in 'eastern european genetics' of ancestors going without food.
00:12:20Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Studying 1936-37 Nazi Germany via audiobook forces him to confront the nature of evil and his own mental weakness.
00:13:51Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Uses songs whose one-minute mark he has memorized (Rocky theme, Fortunate Son, Master of Puppets) to power through cold showers.
00:15:55Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Jokingly declares his side in the 'politically divisive world' is cauliflower against broccoli.
00:21:10Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
Falls asleep while continuing to read Dostoevsky, going back and forth between desk and bed by energy level.
00:32:09Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2020
GSP admits he never liked to fight at all, only fought to keep the lifestyle, money and freedom it provided.
00:01:31Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
He was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after his Bisping fight and feared he had cancer.
00:08:17Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
Fasting under Dr. Jason Fung made him medication-free and reversed his colitis symptoms.
00:08:48Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
Before every fight he was terrified, asking himself 'what the hell am I doing here,' and wore a mask to fake confidence for his coaches.
00:24:26Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
He wanted the Khabib fight and Khabib wanted it, but the UFC refused to make it happen.
01:08:27Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
He believes there is no free will, only causality and the illusion of choice.
01:17:46Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
His first-ever fight was losing 'King of the Mountain' as a kid, bloodied by a surprise punch, teaching him the element of surprise.
02:29:11Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
He now channels his championship drive into acting, landing a role in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
02:31:46Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021
He does a three-day water fast four times a year, timed around New Year, summer and the holidays.
00:11:24Georges St-Pierre · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2021

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