Catherine Raynes: Habits of High Performers and The Secrets of Secrets

Habits of High Performers by James Laughlin  

In Habits of High Performers, renowned strategist, mental skills coach, and award-winning podcaster James Laughlin uncovers the seven musts of a high-performing life. 

This collection of principles is a game-changer for anyone wanting to earn more, be healthier, grow, or the best at what they do. 

Habits of High Performers will show you that high performance is hormonal and plays a massive role in your ability to perform at your best. Cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin all influence how we handle stress, stay motivated, and build connections. This book will also show you that high performers focus on their strengths, take their MEDs, supercharge their belief systems, understand that desire is to a result what fuel is to a fire, and when your why is clear, your how is easy. 

Habits of High Performers is a roadmap for everyday people to achieve extraordinary things. 

  

The Secrets of Secrets by Dan Brown  

Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she’s been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon’s world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves. 

But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. Little can Langdon know that he is being stalked by a spectre from that dark past. He must use all of his arcane knowledge to decipher the world around him before he too is consumed by the rings of treachery and deception that have swallowed Katherine. 

Against a backdrop of vast castles, towering churches, graveyards buried twelve deep and labyrinthine underground passages, Langdon must navigate a shadow city hiding in plain sight, a city which has successfully kept its secrets for centuries and will not readily deliver them. This is a battlefield unlike any he has previously experienced, one on which he must fight not for his only life, but for the future of humanity itself. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time to get your book picks for this weekend. Catherine
Rains is our book reviewer on Saturday mornings on News
Talks dB. She's here with her reads for this weekend. Hey, Catherine,
Morning Jack. Okay, let's begin with Habits of High Performers
by James Laughlin.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
So, before James became a coach, a high performance coach,
he would have described himself, I guess, as being part
of that hustle grind culture that a lot of it exists,
and you know, and as he explains that it typically
comes at the expense of your own health and your
relationships with your family that when it all costs mentality,

(00:50):
you know, work hard, play hard, and really probably what
it's led to is high rates of anxiety and burnout
amongst high performers both and lots of people on and
off the sporting field as well. And he's worked with
all blacks and PGA Tall winners, prime ministers and chief
executives of global corporations. Lot of time to sit down
and talk to people, and he doesn't believe in that
concept of work life balance either, what he talks about

(01:13):
is counterbalancing, and what he means is is it's the
kind of noticing when we've become completely focused on one
sphere of our lives, and often it's work at the
expense of everything else, like family, friends, sleep, health, having
time off. And it sounds quite simplistic, but you know,
he talks about his body having this role and your
ability to perform at your best in particular hormones like

(01:34):
cortisola and dopaman and dolphins, and that influences how we
handle stress and how we stay focused and motivated, and
it's balancing those things through sleep and nutrition and recovery
and so kind of turning your body into an asset,
not kind of limiting you all the time. And he
you know, if you break it down into his most
simplistic form, he's really talking about exercise, diet, and sleep,
and those are the kind of non negotiable things that

(01:55):
you have. You know, exercise gets your body ready for
for what is to come, and nutrition fuels that performance
and sleep allows you to do that sustainably over a
long time. And you know, as he explains it, high
performancey the world differently and they understand that success comes
from that depth and focus, and he has was that
he discussed like vision and self discipline and belief and

(02:18):
it all offers very different perspectives and some practical ideas
and strategies and really shifting your mindset and most importantly
being able to sustain that. And yeah, it's just a
really different kind of an interesting look at how you
can perform differently, and I think not just for high performers,
but you know how you can think about those things
in your own life.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Nice, Okay, that Habits of High Performance by James Laughlan.
You've read Dan Brown's new books tell Us About Secrets
of Secrets.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
So this is his first novel for eight years, and
he brings back Robert Langdon, who's a Harvard symbiologist, and
this time he's against a conspiracy which tests his considerable
brain power and new scientific territories and lots of historical
intrigue and expiration of research and philosophical death. The depth

(03:03):
sorry that Dan Brown brings into his novels. This time
the mystery isn't hidden inside a vault, and it's not
within the Vatican. It's actually in a research center in Prague,
which is kind of known of this mystical capital of Europe.
It's architets architecture of the mythology factor, and it all
kind of weaves into the story, and so you get
lots of cathedrals and monasteries and secrets and kind of

(03:24):
perfect backdrop almost. And in this Robert Langdon has met
this woman, Catherine Solomon, and they're deeply in love. And
she's a noetic scientist and what that means is she
studies human consciousness, so things like esp and precognition and
near death experiences. And they're in Prague for the speaking
engagement and she's made this breakthrough that kind of promises

(03:44):
him to change the world. And then she disappears and
no clue where she is. And Langdon of course is
racing against time and dangerous and powerful people and people
lurking in the dark streets in the city trying to
find Catherine. So you get these fast paced scenes and
an intriguing storyline, lots of course unexpected twists and plot
and the characters. There's murder and mayhem with a few

(04:06):
spy and diplomats and unethical people throwing in there, and
it's yeah, it's a typical Dan Brown roller coaster ride.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Nice, Okay, this sounds great. So that is Secrets of
Secrets by Dan Brown, Catherine's first book, Habits of High
Performers by James Laughlin.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
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