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Neil Adams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1128 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

So you go from seven days a week or six days a week going into the gym and you're working out the dojo and then you don't have to do it. And that's why you get a lot of... When they finish competition, they finish that 30 to 40. I mean, Ilyas is still doing it now. He's still in there and he's still, you know, because he can, right? Okay. And it's natural. And I did exactly the same.

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

So you go from seven days a week or six days a week going into the gym and you're working out the dojo and then you don't have to do it. And that's why you get a lot of... When they finish competition, they finish that 30 to 40. I mean, Ilyas is still doing it now. He's still in there and he's still, you know, because he can, right? Okay. And it's natural. And I did exactly the same.

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

And then, like I say, you just get to an age and you just think, well, I'm just going to kind of take a step back.

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

And then, like I say, you just get to an age and you just think, well, I'm just going to kind of take a step back.

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

And then, like I say, you just get to an age and you just think, well, I'm just going to kind of take a step back.

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

It'd be interesting, wouldn't it, just to see what they're doing now. Because at some stage, you have to get a normal job. You do have to stop. You do have to stop. At some stage, you have to decide what you're going to do. It's either into coaching. The judo is either to coaching. Or if you're not in coaching, then it's into โ€“ something to do with the media.

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

It'd be interesting, wouldn't it, just to see what they're doing now. Because at some stage, you have to get a normal job. You do have to stop. You do have to stop. At some stage, you have to decide what you're going to do. It's either into coaching. The judo is either to coaching. Or if you're not in coaching, then it's into โ€“ something to do with the media.

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

It'd be interesting, wouldn't it, just to see what they're doing now. Because at some stage, you have to get a normal job. You do have to stop. You do have to stop. At some stage, you have to decide what you're going to do. It's either into coaching. The judo is either to coaching. Or if you're not in coaching, then it's into โ€“ something to do with the media.

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

And, you know, I was lucky that I โ€“ it was just by accident, really, with the commentary. Somebody said, would you do a voiceover? So I did this voiceover, and that was back in 1982 I did that.

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

And, you know, I was lucky that I โ€“ it was just by accident, really, with the commentary. Somebody said, would you do a voiceover? So I did this voiceover, and that was back in 1982 I did that.

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

And, you know, I was lucky that I โ€“ it was just by accident, really, with the commentary. Somebody said, would you do a voiceover? So I did this voiceover, and that was back in 1982 I did that.

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

I did some voiceovers. I wouldn't call it commentating. But I did some voiceovers, and then I did some โ€“ we did some different โ€“ European Championships, World Championship kind of events. And I did the voiceovers for it. And the way that it was done, that it was more narration. And so it kind of turned into then somebody asked me to do an event.

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

I did some voiceovers. I wouldn't call it commentating. But I did some voiceovers, and then I did some โ€“ we did some different โ€“ European Championships, World Championship kind of events. And I did the voiceovers for it. And the way that it was done, that it was more narration. And so it kind of turned into then somebody asked me to do an event.

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

I did some voiceovers. I wouldn't call it commentating. But I did some voiceovers, and then I did some โ€“ we did some different โ€“ European Championships, World Championship kind of events. And I did the voiceovers for it. And the way that it was done, that it was more narration. And so it kind of turned into then somebody asked me to do an event.

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

And when you listen to the intonation of the voice and stuff like that, it wasn't like it is now. But I guess that's just something that developed as a, you know, because then it was coming from the heart. And I, you know, started to get excited and just do my thing. And it was just me, really. It's just my style.

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

And when you listen to the intonation of the voice and stuff like that, it wasn't like it is now. But I guess that's just something that developed as a, you know, because then it was coming from the heart. And I, you know, started to get excited and just do my thing. And it was just me, really. It's just my style.

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

And when you listen to the intonation of the voice and stuff like that, it wasn't like it is now. But I guess that's just something that developed as a, you know, because then it was coming from the heart. And I, you know, started to get excited and just do my thing. And it was just me, really. It's just my style.

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

I think it's timing as well, isn't it? It's like you get your timing a bit better and know when to go in, when to come out, when to say something, when not. I think that in the early days, I tended to want to talk all the time, and you don't have to do that.

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

I think it's timing as well, isn't it? It's like you get your timing a bit better and know when to go in, when to come out, when to say something, when not. I think that in the early days, I tended to want to talk all the time, and you don't have to do that.

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

I think it's timing as well, isn't it? It's like you get your timing a bit better and know when to go in, when to come out, when to say something, when not. I think that in the early days, I tended to want to talk all the time, and you don't have to do that.