James Smith: Fitness Myths, Building Confidence and Choosing Happiness (E306)

Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. Happiness is Completely different pleasure and what I've come to realise is If you try and fill your happiness quota with pleasure, you end up in despair. Wouldn't it be nice to have more than your face in your profile picture? Or in Tinder or Hinge, wouldn't it be nice to stop turning the light off when you have sex with your partner? Throughout life, you have two paths, action or inaction. You either spoke to the girl on the tube or you didn't. You either asked your boss for a pay rise or you didn't. I say to people it's not about confidence, it's about action. You need to turn up, then you become confident.

That is the voice of one of the most well known personal trainers on the internet, James Smith, who joins us on High Performance today. My name's Jake Humphrey and we started this podcast because we just wanted to talk to the most incredible people on the planet, learn they've done it, and hopefully find inspiration for our own lives, didn't we? Yeah, we did. And I'm Damien Hughes. I'm an expert in the world of high performing cultures. I'm lucky enough to work with people to help them understand how to create environments that get the best out of themselves. And others.

So who is James Smith? Well, after traveling Asia and Australia as a young guy, he took up personal training. He's since written three Sunday Times bestsellers, amassed a huge number of social media followers. And I guess you could say he's known for his unconventional approach to fitness, disparaging the fads and the quick fixes. which have become so prevalent and so dangerous with the rise of social media. And today in this conversation with us. He'll take you deep into his approach, his mindset His methods

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