Lex Fridman

Fix the underlying problem, which is usually at the very bottom is always going to be fear.

Work on that.

So what do you do?

I mean, you've been in a lot of gatherings, a lot of parties.

Is there some challenges to saying no?

So that's another fear you have to face, going into a party and the fear of being the outcast at that party, of being different than others at that party, at that social gathering, in the crowd of humans, be different.

That's a fear.

Yeah, that's one of the things we talked about sort of by way of advice, is if you want to be successful in life, you want to be different.

And perhaps, I think you said you want to achieve mastery at a niche.

So find a niche at which you can pursue with all your effort and achieve mastery.

And the niche being different than anything that anybody else is doing.

Can you explain that a little bit more?

Yeah, majority of the population becomes slaves to the AI recommender systems, AI-driven recommender systems.

And so the content, everybody's fed is the same thing and we all become the same.

On that point, one of the different things you do is you don't use a phone, except occasionally to test telegram features.

But I've been with you for two weeks.

I haven't seen you use a phone at all in the way that most people use a phone, like for their social media.

So can you describe your philosophy behind that?

It provides distractions.

It guides what you should be looking at, what you will be looking at.