Lex Fridman Podcast

#152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions

Jan 9, 2021

01:16:40

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The Loss of Dan Gable

04:35

Can Anger Control Be Fuel?

03:18

Wrestling Gold - What Was Going Through Your Mind?

01:47

Introduction

2min

How to Make Machine Learning Work for Your Business

2min

How to Use ExpressVPN to Surf the Web Safely and Anonymously

4min

What's the Difference Between American and Russian Wrestling?

2min

Is There a Difference Between Russian and American Wrestling?

2min

How Did Dan Gable Help the Russians?

2min

You Know When You Can't Push Kids to Their Limit?

3min

Is There Any Lesson From Chad Zapato?

2min

The Impossible Is Possible

4min

10.

The Impossible Isn't It?

2min

11.

Wrestling Gold - What Was Going Through Your Mind?

2min

12.

How Do You Take Down Gable Down?

2min

13.

Wrestling in the Olympics - What's Going Through Your Mind?

3min

14.

Wrestling - You Know, I've Taken Risks Where You Could Pay for Them

2min

15.

Wrestling Coaches

2min

16.

Do You Have Fear in Wrestling?

2min

17.

Do You Ever Worked So Hard That You've Passed Out on the Mat?

3min

18.

Wrestling - The Line Between Aggressive, Tough and Anger

2min

19.

Can Anger Control Be Fuel?

3min

20.

How Did That Change Your Life?

3min

21.

Is There a Part of You That Blames Yourself?

5min

22.

The Role of Family in Wrestling

5min

23.

Wrestling - What Did You Learn From That?

4min

24.

The Loss of Dan Gable

5min

25.

The Biggest Fish You've Ever Catched

2min

26.

Is There a Lot of Science in Your Life?

6min

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:31) – Russian wrestling
(11:09) – Coaching the science, art, and toughness of wrestling
(18:05) – The pain of defeat and the tattoo of a hawk clawing out the heart
(21:04) – Roger Bannister and the 4 minute mile
(24:09) – The dream of becoming an Olympic champion
(26:38) – The day in 1972 of the Olympic final
(30:10) – Sauna story
(31:39) – Match against the Russian
(37:13) – The role of fear in wrestling
(42:14) – The line between physical wrestling and anger
(46:53) – Tragic loss of Dan’s sister
(54:21) – The role of family in wrestling
(59:43) – Wrestling being voted out of the Olympics
(1:04:26) – To beat the best you must study the best
(1:09:39) – The role of luck (Old Man and the Sea)