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Jordan Jonas

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

nobody's gonna make this happen except myself you can't can't complain it wouldn't have done me any good to go back and mope about it and so then i was like i had a thought i was like oh i remember these native the native guys telling me they used to like build these giant fences and funnel game into certain areas and stuff and i was like man that's a lot of calories but i have to make that happen again now so i kind of went out there and tried that and that was kind of a

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

nobody's gonna make this happen except myself you can't can't complain it wouldn't have done me any good to go back and mope about it and so then i was like i had a thought i was like oh i remember these native the native guys telling me they used to like build these giant fences and funnel game into certain areas and stuff and i was like man that's a lot of calories but i have to make that happen again now so i kind of went out there and tried that and that was kind of a

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

attempt at something too it could have failed or not worked but sure enough it worked and the opportunity came again the moose came wandering along and i was able to get it but being able to take failure as soon as you can the better accept it and then learn from it is kind of a muscle you have to exercise a little bit well it's interesting because in this case the cost of failure is like you're not going to be able to eat yeah yeah that was really interesting i mean

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

attempt at something too it could have failed or not worked but sure enough it worked and the opportunity came again the moose came wandering along and i was able to get it but being able to take failure as soon as you can the better accept it and then learn from it is kind of a muscle you have to exercise a little bit well it's interesting because in this case the cost of failure is like you're not going to be able to eat yeah yeah that was really interesting i mean

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

attempt at something too it could have failed or not worked but sure enough it worked and the opportunity came again the moose came wandering along and i was able to get it but being able to take failure as soon as you can the better accept it and then learn from it is kind of a muscle you have to exercise a little bit well it's interesting because in this case the cost of failure is like you're not going to be able to eat yeah yeah that was really interesting i mean

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

The most interesting thing about that show was how high the stakes felt. Because it didn't feel... You know, you didn't tell yourself you're on a show. At least I didn't. You just felt like it was... You're going to starve to death if you don't make this happen. And so the stakes felt so high. And it was an interesting thing to...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

The most interesting thing about that show was how high the stakes felt. Because it didn't feel... You know, you didn't tell yourself you're on a show. At least I didn't. You just felt like it was... You're going to starve to death if you don't make this happen. And so the stakes felt so high. And it was an interesting thing to...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

The most interesting thing about that show was how high the stakes felt. Because it didn't feel... You know, you didn't tell yourself you're on a show. At least I didn't. You just felt like it was... You're going to starve to death if you don't make this happen. And so the stakes felt so high. And it was an interesting thing to...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

tap into because I mean so many of our ancestors probably all just dealt with that on a regular basis but it's something that we're all the modern amenities and such and food security that we don't deal with and it was interesting to tap into what a

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

tap into because I mean so many of our ancestors probably all just dealt with that on a regular basis but it's something that we're all the modern amenities and such and food security that we don't deal with and it was interesting to tap into what a

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

tap into because I mean so many of our ancestors probably all just dealt with that on a regular basis but it's something that we're all the modern amenities and such and food security that we don't deal with and it was interesting to tap into what a

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

kind of a peak mental experience that is when you really really need something to survive and then it happens it's you can't imagine i mean that's what our all our dopamine and the receptors are tuned for that experience in particular so it was yeah it was pretty awesome but the pressure felt very on like i always felt the pressure of of providing or starving

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

kind of a peak mental experience that is when you really really need something to survive and then it happens it's you can't imagine i mean that's what our all our dopamine and the receptors are tuned for that experience in particular so it was yeah it was pretty awesome but the pressure felt very on like i always felt the pressure of of providing or starving

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

kind of a peak mental experience that is when you really really need something to survive and then it happens it's you can't imagine i mean that's what our all our dopamine and the receptors are tuned for that experience in particular so it was yeah it was pretty awesome but the pressure felt very on like i always felt the pressure of of providing or starving

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Right. Yeah. Well, it was... When I got the moose, I was so happy. The most joy I could almost experience maxed out. But I didn't think I... I didn't think I won at that point. I never thought like, oh, that's my ticket to victory. I thought, holy crap, it's going to be me against somebody else that gets a moose now. And we're going to be here six, eight months, who knows how long.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Right. Yeah. Well, it was... When I got the moose, I was so happy. The most joy I could almost experience maxed out. But I didn't think I... I didn't think I won at that point. I never thought like, oh, that's my ticket to victory. I thought, holy crap, it's going to be me against somebody else that gets a moose now. And we're going to be here six, eight months, who knows how long.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

Right. Yeah. Well, it was... When I got the moose, I was so happy. The most joy I could almost experience maxed out. But I didn't think I... I didn't think I won at that point. I never thought like, oh, that's my ticket to victory. I thought, holy crap, it's going to be me against somebody else that gets a moose now. And we're going to be here six, eight months, who knows how long.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so I can't be here six, eight months and still lose. So I've got to outproduce somebody else with a moose. So I had all that in my head. And I already was, of course, pretty thin. And so I was just like, man, if somebody else gets a moose, I'm still going to be behind. And so everything felt like...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so I can't be here six, eight months and still lose. So I've got to outproduce somebody else with a moose. So I had all that in my head. And I already was, of course, pretty thin. And so I was just like, man, if somebody else gets a moose, I'm still going to be behind. And so everything felt like...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

And so I can't be here six, eight months and still lose. So I've got to outproduce somebody else with a moose. So I had all that in my head. And I already was, of course, pretty thin. And so I was just like, man, if somebody else gets a moose, I'm still going to be behind. And so everything felt like...