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Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Optimism a Productivity Hack?

I try to ignore the noise of the world, the bickering of the moment. I find that optimism for how much even better things could be as a kind of superpower. It makes life exciting in a way that first is just fun to live and two, from just a productivity perspective as an engineer or anybody who creates anything, it's fuel to create. There's probably a lot to be said about this, but I'll try to keep a brief and simple.

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