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#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Feeling Shitty About Yourself

I was having an existential crisis like how will I be able to do anything at all? This is your giant failure, all those kinds of negative voices. But for me, just looking empirically, feeling shitty has always been productive. It makes me long-term happier. Ultimately, it makes me more grateful to be alive and helps me grow. So I kind of embrace it. Otherwise I feel like I will never do anything. If you're somebody that can get stuck in that place, clinically depressed, you have to be really, really careful. You don't want to get into that place. And actually, speaking of depression did struggle for at least 10 years of my life.

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