Angus Fletcher

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2,582 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 8 Jul

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Angus Fletcher · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And because I'd been trained in science and because one of the reasons that I'd been successful as a young person is because I did think like a computer and I was very good at standardized tests and I was very good at math.

is I immediately approached the GRE, which was itself a standardized test, as a logic puzzle.

And so I got all the existing copies of the GRE, and I didn't read any of them, but I looked at the answers for all the questions, and then I took those answers and I broke them out, and I memorized plot summaries of all of those works.

And then I went into the actual GRE, and I got basically a perfect score.

Wow.

And it actually was kind of a while because I remember when I got to Yale, they sat me down and they said, we know you must be a genius because no one has ever done so well on that test.

And I said, oh, thank you very much.

And then I got into my first literature class and I was completely incompetent because, of course, I'd hacked tests.

So you were good at taking tests.

You weren't good at literature.

That's right.

And in general, that's actually the story of my life is I've always been very good at taking tests and I've always been very bad at life.

I think for me, tests have always been more of like a game.

So it actually makes me anxious of things that I take seriously.

And for me, tests have always been this way of pleasing power and authority.

It's a little bit like a ritual, you know?

And so I don't get stressed about them because I don't feel like I'm personally invested in them.

But what I get anxious about is, so when I have a conversation with someone, the reason I'm socially anxious or the reason that I have a hard time, I have to do a lot of public speaking now and it gives me terrible panic, is because I think there's nothing more sacred than another person.

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