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Speaker 1: Hello Habit Mechanics
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It's Dr Jon Finn here I am
walking to the office, which is

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why I'm already slightly out of
breath Just coming to the top of

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a big hill.

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Hope you're well.

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I want to talk about behaviour
change and why it's difficult

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and why AI can help us to do it
more efficiently and more

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effectively.

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And I want to start by talking
about the word behaviour.

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What does it mean?

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We often associate it with bad
behaviour so somebody behaved

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badly.

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But in psychology, behaviour
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think and do.

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So whatever you're thinking
right now is the behaviour, and

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most of our behaviour is
automatic or semi-automatic.

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So you're able to speak to
yourself in I'm assuming english

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, automatically, right, using
perfect words and maybe less

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perfect sentence structures, but
meaningful, automatically.

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It's on autopilot.

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In the same way, when I said,
don't think of a white elephant,

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it's already in your brain.

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You don't have to consciously
think about it.

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So one of the big
misconceptions about the word

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behavior is that it's about what
people do physically.

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It's not.

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It's also about how they.

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And what we've found really
helpful is the best unit to

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break behaviours into is habits.

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And when I talk about
automaticity, most of what we

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think and do is automatic.

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We're talking between 98% of
what you're thinking and doing

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at any given time, all the way
up to 100%.

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Sometimes it's completely
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You're not thinking consciously
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you're sleeping.

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But people say often I wasn't
thinking clearly, I was just an

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autopilot.

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So our automaticity has the
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have has been surprising to
scientists, and this is the work

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that people like daniel
kahneman thinking fast and slow,

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of thinking fast and slow fame
has made his career off right.

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So looking at what he calls um,
he calls heuristics, which is

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basically thinking habits.

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So that's behavior.

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So we're always behaving
because we're always thinking

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and doing, and the thing that we
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, how do we start?

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If I recognise some of the
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are not all that helpful for me,
I'm just taking my jacket off

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so that it skews the crumple.

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So you may have completed, for
example, the human AI readiness

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assessment in chapter 8 of Train
your Brain for the AI

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Revolution.

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Or you may have just done a
daily T-plan.

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Today, ranked yourself out of
10, how well did you do your

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best to be at your best?

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Today, ranked yourself out of
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How well did you do your best
to be at your best, or you may

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have done using another, another
um one of our many self

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intelligent, self-watching tools
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So you recognize there are some
things I'd like to change.

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So that's the first step to
changing your behavior is

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self-awareness is recognizing,
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Step to changing your behaviour
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recognising, and that's quite
difficult to do because our

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brains are so automated.

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We're not really designed to
think about ourselves in that

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way and that's why people are
attracted to coaching and

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therapy, because it gives them
that way to reflect and think

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about themselves and think about
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We kind of saw that mindfulness
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now.

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Things like apps like headspace
and calm and things came out

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and they're really about
self-awareness, getting you to

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think about yourself.

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So now that's just the starting
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Knowing what we'd like to do
differently is very different

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from doing it.

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Behaviour change is difficult
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need cognitive resources to do
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In simple language, you need
willpower and that means you

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need to be in a high charge
brain state and that's it.

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We're back to it again at which
brain states.

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You cannot change your behavior
, you cannot be at your best

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consistently if you do not
understand brain states and,

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again, no one else is talking
about this, and this is why

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we're saying that the hybrid
mechanic approach, the new human

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ai performance psychology coach
for training up there.

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They are unique in what they
understand because if we want to

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be at our best, we have to
understand our brain states and

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if we want to start to change
behavior, we've got to get into

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the high charge brain state, and
that is difficult to do.

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So I think we've all
experienced reflecting, whether

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that's in a training session or
a chat, and then deciding yeah,

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I do need to do something
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it, but by the time I get to the
end of the day I'm so exhausted

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that I never do it, and then I
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So the next day I never do it
or I start and then I fail.

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It's because you're relying on
willpower and willpower is

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depleted because your brain
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So and people say willpower is
overrated willpower is what it

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is, it's the conduit to change.

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So we need it in the first
instance to put the effort in to

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make meaningful change to the
sort of behaviors that we need

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to change to be healthier,
happier and our best, like

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sleeping better, eating better,
exercising more regularly,

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managing stress better, be more
confident, be more focused

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before managing pressure, better
behaving in a way that helps us

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to be a better team member and
a better leader and a better

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parent, or whatever it is we
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They all require willpower as
the initiator of change.

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We can only access our high
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willpower lives if we get that
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the right balance of brain
states, the right balance of

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recharge, medium charge and high
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And this is where AI is so
revolutionary, because for the

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first time ever, we have
technology we can use to

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outsource the tasks that we
complete every day that only

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used to be completable by human
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So we can outsource some of the
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every day.

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We can outsource it to AI.

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So just a tiny example instead
of having to manually book in

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every single call, you use a
tool called Calendly which just

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does it automatically for you,
and these tools are becoming

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more and more powerful every
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So we've got the automation
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essentially reduce the amount of
busy work that we have to do

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and the volume of it and then
what we also have and that's

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going to make it easier for us
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states.

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Then what we also have is
augmented ai, so or ai that

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augments our high-charge
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So it's almost like, if you
think of, when you first learn

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to ride a bike it's quite
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takes an awful lot of
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body's not really attuned to the
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stabilizers on right.

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Um, generative ai is like that.

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It's like stabilizers for your
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generative AI is like that.

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It's like stabilizers for your
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So it means you can actually do
high-charge thinking more

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easily and therefore you can do
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And we need to get into that
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our clever, high-impact work,
which makes us feel good about

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ourselves.

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Sup, you might be thinking where
are you going with this, john?

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Does AI help me to eat better?

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Does it help me to manage my
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Well, it can, directly and
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Obviously, there are
technologies now we can use to

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track and monitor these things.

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But what it's allowing us to do
is get a better balance of

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brain states so we can outsource
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We can augment and supercharge
some of our high charge thinking

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, and that free.

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That means it's easier for us
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or spend more time in our high
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So if you look at the brain
state profiles in chapter nine

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of train your brain for the air
revolution you can get a free

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copy off the website then you'll
see what I'm talking about.

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It gives you a better balance
of brain states.

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So you may currently be across
the bear where you've got very

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little capacity to do high
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the change is initiated.

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Where we work on ourselves as
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It's the brain state we used to
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So to resist that temptation
not to eat the food, to get to

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bed on time, to resist the
temptation to say that thing

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that we know is unhelpful, to
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procrastinate, we need our
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us to do that.

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So by striking a better balance
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going to free up more of it.

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So that's behavior change.

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It's why brain states are so
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Brain state balance, especially
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access our high charge brain
states and um, it's how ai can

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actually help us to strike a
better balance, and what I'm

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talking about here is human AI
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That is a new field of
psychology we've created.

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We are pioneering this field
and we're doing that because we

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want to empower people to thrive
in what is a complex period of

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human history.

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But I think there's massive
potential to help us to get a

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better balance of brain states
and when you do that, you get

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massive results and I'm seeing
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There's a very small case today
which I can't go into too much

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detail in, but I got a lovely
text on Sunday from someone who

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I just talked this to on the
phone on Friday, and they're

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basically the thing they were
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They broke the record.

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They'd never been able to do
that thing before and just by

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understanding their brain states
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the thing that sits behind that
they just said it completely

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changed their ability to
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potential.

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So that's just with the
knowledge initially, but that

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person was very highly motivated
and they have a lot of the

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other nine action factors going
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But anyway, I just wanted to
share that on my walk to work,

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I'm conscious of not getting run
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So I'm approaching some busy
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So I hope that's got you
thinking.

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If there's ever any questions,
let us know busy roads.

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So I hope that's got you
thinking.

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As ever, any questions, let us
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Remember you're only one brain
state habit away.