The Power of Building Habits: Your Path to High Performance

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We know that you can't always dedicate an hour or an hour and a half. to listen to a full conversation on high performance. So every week, myself and Damien, hi Damien, hi Jay, we'll look back in the archives of the show and we will just try and collate something that we think will be really valuable to you. And I suppose before we look at some of the habits and we hear from some of the previous guests who've joined us, if someone's listening to this and they don't understand the science or the psychology or the importance behind the conversation about habits, what would you like them to understand? So there's three things to be honest, Jake.

First one is a habit can then be translated into a baby step. If you think of building a wall, you build it brick by brick. So a habit just allows you to establish a sense of momentum. The second thing is that what you're doing is you're moving a conscious behaviour into the unconscious part of your brain. So it's almost like you're acting as a free ride with this, that you're getting out of your own way.

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