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#182 – John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Combat Sports

Mike Tyson was 13 years old when he was taken in by Customato. Yasuhiro Yamashta, the judo player, began judo at 13. He placed silver in the old Japan's at 17. I could go on all day with examples of athletes who within a five-year timeframe of starting a sport were competing at world championship level. If you can play a competitive match against someone ranked in the top 25 in your sport, I would call you someone who's mastered that sport. You're damn good. This is not an unrealistic goal. There is a lot of empirical evidence to show that people have done this in the past,. A lot of it.

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