What Lex Fridman thinks about ambition
AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Lex Fridman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSetting a worse task against the one you are avoiding is a procrastination hack that actually works.
Their wordsIt’s when you really don’t want to do a thing that you imagine a thing you don’t want to do more that’s worse than that and then in that way, you procrastinate by not doing the thing that’s worse. It’s a nice hack, it actually works.
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