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Neil Adams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1128 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

That kind of dark period in my life, you know, and I never, ever, ever, you know, did it go through my mind, anything else, but it definitely affected me and I was on a downward kind of spiral in a lot of different ways.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

That kind of dark period in my life, you know, and I never, ever, ever, you know, did it go through my mind, anything else, but it definitely affected me and I was on a downward kind of spiral in a lot of different ways.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

That kind of dark period in my life, you know, and I never, ever, ever, you know, did it go through my mind, anything else, but it definitely affected me and I was on a downward kind of spiral in a lot of different ways.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

And, um, would still even, you know, I mean, we, we have an amazing marriage and we have an amazing family and everything's great, but I still wake up sometimes and I'll say, I've just dreamt, you know, that, and it's the same reoccurring dream where I'm trying to get somewhere and I'm trying to put it right. You know, and I, I've got.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

And, um, would still even, you know, I mean, we, we have an amazing marriage and we have an amazing family and everything's great, but I still wake up sometimes and I'll say, I've just dreamt, you know, that, and it's the same reoccurring dream where I'm trying to get somewhere and I'm trying to put it right. You know, and I, I've got.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

And, um, would still even, you know, I mean, we, we have an amazing marriage and we have an amazing family and everything's great, but I still wake up sometimes and I'll say, I've just dreamt, you know, that, and it's the same reoccurring dream where I'm trying to get somewhere and I'm trying to put it right. You know, and I, I've got.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

this chance of putting this Olympic final right, you know, in, in, in this dream, I've got a chance to doing it, but I can't get there. And the traffic stopping me or something stops me. And I, you know, and then I wake up and I'm sweating and it's, and you think, well, after all this time, that's not possible, but it is. And it happens. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

this chance of putting this Olympic final right, you know, in, in, in this dream, I've got a chance to doing it, but I can't get there. And the traffic stopping me or something stops me. And I, you know, and then I wake up and I'm sweating and it's, and you think, well, after all this time, that's not possible, but it is. And it happens. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

this chance of putting this Olympic final right, you know, in, in, in this dream, I've got a chance to doing it, but I can't get there. And the traffic stopping me or something stops me. And I, you know, and then I wake up and I'm sweating and it's, and you think, well, after all this time, that's not possible, but it is. And it happens. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

Well, you know, his team doctor and coach, he came up to me afterwards and said, I'm just really sorry. And that's all they said is I'm just really sorry. They were sorry because, you know, obviously the obvious sadness about that, you know, and of course everybody takes their โ€“ you know, I went actually โ€“ Two and a, was it three weeks later, the German Open.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

Well, you know, his team doctor and coach, he came up to me afterwards and said, I'm just really sorry. And that's all they said is I'm just really sorry. They were sorry because, you know, obviously the obvious sadness about that, you know, and of course everybody takes their โ€“ you know, I went actually โ€“ Two and a, was it three weeks later, the German Open.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

Well, you know, his team doctor and coach, he came up to me afterwards and said, I'm just really sorry. And that's all they said is I'm just really sorry. They were sorry because, you know, obviously the obvious sadness about that, you know, and of course everybody takes their โ€“ you know, I went actually โ€“ Two and a, was it three weeks later, the German Open.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

So he had to compete in the German Open three weeks later. So I went over to fight him and beat him in the final of the German Open. And it didn't do anything for me because it was a much tighter match. He was a lot closer. He had a lot more confidence coming in. So he fought me a lot differently. And then it was me pulling it back. and just managing to win in the final.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

So he had to compete in the German Open three weeks later. So I went over to fight him and beat him in the final of the German Open. And it didn't do anything for me because it was a much tighter match. He was a lot closer. He had a lot more confidence coming in. So he fought me a lot differently. And then it was me pulling it back. and just managing to win in the final.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

So he had to compete in the German Open three weeks later. So I went over to fight him and beat him in the final of the German Open. And it didn't do anything for me because it was a much tighter match. He was a lot closer. He had a lot more confidence coming in. So he fought me a lot differently. And then it was me pulling it back. and just managing to win in the final.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

And I thought, well, that might appease, it appeased nothing, didn't do anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

And I thought, well, that might appease, it appeased nothing, didn't do anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

And I thought, well, that might appease, it appeased nothing, didn't do anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

It means so much. And I think, you know, but I've got to say this, and this is honestly, you know, if it meant that if I'd have won that Olympic Games and it had to change my life into a different direction, which I probably would have not competed in the 88 Olympic Games then. All right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#427 โ€“ Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset

It means so much. And I think, you know, but I've got to say this, and this is honestly, you know, if it meant that if I'd have won that Olympic Games and it had to change my life into a different direction, which I probably would have not competed in the 88 Olympic Games then. All right.