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Speaker 1: Hello Habit Mechanics
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It's Dr John Finn here I am
doing a walking podcast on my

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way into the office this morning
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I've been astounded by some of
the results that our coaching

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clients are getting with our new
human AI performance psychology

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structure.

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They're consistently just
getting these amazing results,

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and often highly tangible, like
securing $90,000 pay rises,

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being given equity in businesses
because they're now seen as

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leaders in human ai performance.

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So we've been reflecting on
well, why is that?

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Why is this?

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Why?

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Why is the system we're
teaching getting such good

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results?

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And I think for me I have to go
back to the beginning, which is

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why did I create tougher minds?

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Why did I create the habit
mechanic?

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Why did I extend that in the AI
era to the habit mechanic AI

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edge system?

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Sorry, I'm walking up a hill,
so I'm slightly of breath.

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So it's because broadly what I
got taught at university and

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I've got three performance
psychology-related degrees,

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including a PhD just didn't work
so well in the field and

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largely what I was taught was
based on talk therapy.

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Sport psychology gets pretty
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You learn tools and things like
that to teach people.

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But when I got into the field
and started to work with clients

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and athletes in particular,
very high-performing elite

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people, I learned that those
tools didn't work very

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effectively.

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That's why I started creating
the tools and systems I have and

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I think and actually if you,
that's not just me saying this

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there are now large sets of data
showing that, for all the hype

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around talk therapy, it is not
very effective.

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The data shows very clearly.

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Studies of over 52,000 people
shows that CBT, which is the

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sort of gold standard talk
therapy only can be proven to

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help one in five people.

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One in five people.

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And the kicker is those results
don't seem to last more than 12

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months before people default
back to the unhelpful ways of

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thinking and doing they were
before the therapy.

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And why is that the case?

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I think there are four core
reasons and I want to unpack

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those.

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And it goes to some way to
explaining why we created a

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system like we did.

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Traditional coaching doesn't
consider brain states.

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Most of it doesn't consider the
brain at all in the first

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principle sense.

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Even the systems that say
they're neuroscience based, I'm

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very dubious as to what they
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What is understood?

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It doesn't strike that they
operate from a first principle

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model about how brains work, and
that's completely

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understandable because we've
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brains for about 25 years now.

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I was very lucky at the start
of my education that that's what

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I began to learn about off the
bat, so to speak.

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So if we want to be successful,
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brain states and get brain state
intelligent.

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And that's why, in our
four-step success cycle which we

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talk people through in train
your brain for the AI revolution

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, we show you how to measure
your brain states to start with,

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and you get a score.

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You get a human AI readiness
brain state score.

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And the next reason, then, that
I think traditional approaches

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talk therapy based approaches
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people are more overwhelmed than
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The world is more complex.

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Ai is making it even more
complex and they tend to um,

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when you learn how to coach
using a cbt talk therapy based

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model, you really get taught to
focus on tools and tactics,

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which sometimes people call tips
and tricks, and they make sense

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when you're taught them and
people agree it would be a good

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idea to do that thing to help
them to be a better leader or be

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a better team member or manage
stress better so they can sleep

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at night.

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But people quickly forget them
and often those tips and tricks

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are not part of a bigger
strategic approach for the

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individual.

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You all, we all, know that and
understand that businesses have

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strategies, they have strategic
plans, they have long-term

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strategic plans and short-term
strategic plans, and what we've

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learned is that if you, if you,
if you're an individual and

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you're trying to be at your best
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strategic plan and a short-term
strategic plan, the likelihood

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is you're going to struggle.

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So that's why in steps three
and four of the success cycle so

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sorry, steps two and three of
the success cycle step two is

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the, the task director system
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designer system.

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These are essentially ways to
develop your own strategic plan

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for your future self, but also
for today and the next 24 hours.

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And then, once you have those
strategic plans, any tools that

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you're using or that you learn
to use and you know, in our own

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approach, we have I think we
have about well, nearly 40 tools

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now.

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Actually, those tools are more
powerful because they're part of

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a strategic approach to being
healthy, happy at your best in

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the AI era.

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And again, when you're just
doing normal coaching and people

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tell us this, they tell us I
don't think there's one person

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we've worked with who hasn't
tried coaching before?

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And they always tell us I've
tried this before, but your

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stuff works and the other stuff
doesn't work.

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People very nice, they're very,
very friendly, but and I

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thought it was going to help me
but it didn't but this is, and

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that's because we're taking into
consideration the brain in a

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friendly way brain states, we're
helping people to create the

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long-term strategy plan and then
the daily strategy plan using

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our task director system and our
day designer system.

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And then the final step and this
is where traditional approaches

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this bit often just doesn't
exist.

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And if it does exist, it has no
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Um, it's.

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You need a way of automating
your approach, your behaviors,

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in other words your habits, so
that you don't just do them once

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or twice, you make them as
automatic as the unhelpful

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behaviors were.

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And this is why you need a
comprehensive understanding of,

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of behavioral science, not just
nudge theory.

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That's just one ninth of what
explains why we do what we do,

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not just skin as reward and
penalty systems again, that's

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one ninth not just carol dwight,
mindset ideas, and I could go

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on but all of these big
behavioral science theories that

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people trumpet as the answer
are actually part of a jigsaw

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puzzle and we've learned that
the jigsaw puzzle has nine parts

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and that's what our nine action
factor system represents.

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It's like a bridge between.

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It gives you literally a bridge
between where you are now and

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where you want to be.

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Um, and in our success cycle, in
train your brain for the air

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revolution, in Train your Brain
for the Air Revolution.

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That's captured in the routine
engineer component.

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So, yeah, I'm not saying this
stuff to be to brag or anything.

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I want to help people to do
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I'm just trying to explain why
I don't think that the gold

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standard therapy that everyone
talks about all the time is only

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actually proven now to help one
in five people and those

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results only last for about 12
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It's very explainable when you
understand first principle

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insights about human brain
function and that's what we

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designed the success cycle to do
just to give you that four-step

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model to address those four
core points we know are

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essential if we actually want to
make a positive strategic

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change in our lives, and I think
, more than ever as the world

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becomes more aggressive, we need
to think about ourselves as a

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business in the sense of you
need a strategic plan, you need

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to be very if you want to be
healthy, happy and at your best,

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and that might be the goal of
your business.

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You need a strategic plan to
help you to do that.

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But that strategic plan will be
useless unless you understand

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your brain states.

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It'll be useless unless you
have a daily way of deploying it

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, like our day designer system,
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you have a robust behavioral
science approach, like our nine

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action factor model and the
routine engineer system.

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So I hope that um that's got
you thinking that, even if

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you've been trying things before
and they haven't been working,

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there is, I think, a different
approach that you can use, and

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it doesn't mean you have to
throw out everything you've been

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doing.

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You can keep doing that.

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But what the success cycle
gives you is a better container,

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a better model to put those
things into and to add some uh

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super boosters to, so that it
makes some of the things you've

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tried before but couldn't quite
stick with um even more powerful

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So that's all I wanted to say.

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We do have a webinar on
Wednesday, the 14th of May, and

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we're going to be talking about
the title is the AI Lie and it's

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about how many people and teams
are getting overwhelmed by AI.

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It isn't delivering what it says
it will on the on the packet,

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if you like, um, and I want to
show what, what teams that who

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are being successful and what
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successful are doing instead.

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So that's what we're going to
talk about, um.

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If you are interested in
learning more about one-to-one

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coaching, just go to the website
and give us an email, um.

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You can now also actually get a
copy of the train your brain

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for the ai revolution from the
website, um, so you can just

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download it directly from there
if that's of interest.

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And then the only other thing I
would finish with is if you

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have found something in this
interesting, write it down, make

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a note about it, and then
you've got a better chance of

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putting it into action.

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So I hope that was insightful.

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I hope you enjoy the rest of
your day and remember you're

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only ever one brain state habit
away.