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Hello, habit
mechanics, Dr.
John Finn here.
I hope you're having a fantasticweek so far.
So I am excited to announce thatwe're gonna today start our
first audio four-day challenge.
So we've been playing about withdifferent challenges over the
years, and I feel that peopleare so busy and things are you
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know just so hectic thatactually getting people together
at the same in the same place atthe same time, even if it's uh
on a Zoom call, is just harderthan ever.
So my mission is to make it aseasy as possible for people to
be healthy, happy, and at theirbest more often and thrive in
the AI era.
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So I want to make it as easy aspossible for you to benefit from
the insights we've developed intrain your brain for the air
evolution and the habit mechanicapproach.
And I want to make it as easy aspossible for people to use human
AI performance psychology tohelp themselves in their own
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life, but also to use thatscience to help others to
thrive.
So, what we're gonna do acrossthis four-day challenge is we're
gonna work through the AI edgesuccess cycle, which is at the
heart of train your brain forthe AI revolution.
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And today we're gonna go andmeasure our brain states.
Now, why is that important?
We are rapidly and fartheralong, further along than
anybody was predicting in termsof how AI is disrupting
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traditional ways of working,just like the Industrial
Revolution automated um physicallabor, neural network AI
technology is automatingcognitive labor.
So, for the first time ever,many of the tasks that only
humans have been able to do arenow automatable by machines or
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by neural network AI.
And I think it's best to thinkof this technology as more like
a species because it's evolvingso quickly, and actually,
because it's human like it whatin what it can do, it is more
like a species.
So, for the first time ever,things that up until now only
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humans have been able to do, wecan outsource them to a
technology or a species if we'regoing to use that language, and
we're seeing you know lots ofsectors being disrupted.
The graduate market, forexample, is undoubtedly taking a
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massive hit from businesses nowusing AI instead of hiring
graduates because the AI can dowhat the graduates used to do
faster and cheaper.
We're seeing more and morebusinesses roll out their own
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bespoke both um agentic AItools, so tools that can do the
kind of tasks that humans dowith their medium-charged brain
states.
Agentic I can do that stufffaster and cheaper than humans,
and also they're rolling outtheir own LLMs, large language
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models, uh generated by I uhtools.
So and these things, whenbusinesses are rolling them out,
often have you know a big wallaround them, so nothing can get
out, none of their data canleak.
But essentially it's like chatGTP or Claude for design for a
business.
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But my point is that thesethings are real and they are um
not the millennium bug, they'renot going away, they're just
gonna become more and morepowerful and used more often.
So we have to get ahead aroundthis.
Um, and we have to start usingthem.
But the key thing to understandis actually what's happening
right now is that we are makingthis transition from working in
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teams of hum in teams of humansor working in human teams, we're
starting to make a transition towork with AI.
So we we're making a transitionto to human AI teams, and you
can form a human AI team just byyourself, just by working with
some AI.
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And if you get it right, that'sgoing to help you to go faster
and further than you everthought possible.
Many people are using AI andit's slowing them down.
So there's data showing that 77%of employees said AI is slowing
me down.
That's not an AI problem, that'sa human problem because people
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are overwhelmed.
We want to learn how to use thistechnology so we can get the
things that we want to get donein our life faster, and also
including building new superhabits.
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So, what we're learning is thatAI technologies are not just for
helping us to um get projects atwork done faster, get admin jobs
done faster, they free up braincapacity so that we can actually
work on ourselves to build abetter sleep habit, to build a
better diet habit, to build abetter stress management habit,
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to build a better leadershiphabit or a parent habit,
whatever it is, whatever newsuper habits we want to build,
the main barrier is not enoughbrain power because we go, yeah,
that's what I want to do.
I need to sleep better, yeah.
I need to be a better leader,yeah, I need to be a better
communicator, yeah.
I need to manage stress better,yeah, I need to stop
multitasking and start singletasking.
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But then we don't because wejust slip back into the same old
behaviors because we havelimited willpower.
So although willpower doesn'texplain everything about our
ability to change our behavior,to build new habits, it is the
conduit, it is the gatekeeper.
So now that we can actuallyoutsource lots of the things
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that we would have traditionallyhad to have used our brain to do
every day to that neural networkAI species, then that frees up
our own brain power so we caninvest it into the things that
we want that are most importantfor us, that are the things that
we want to work on and getbetter at.
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So, this is what I want to helpus all to do in these four-day
challenges.
And if we get this right, we aregoing to become unstoppable in
the AI era.
And we can also help others tobecome unstoppable.
And you know, I keep sayingthis, but the gold standard
here, like anything, that sameold mantra, you don't really
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know it until you can teach itto somebody else.
And that's why I'm saying thegoal here really is if you want
to get good at this stuff, youneed to become your own expert
habit coach.
And that's why we're so drivento help more and more people
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become certified habit mechaniccoaches because that is the gold
standard.
It's not about setting up yourown coaching business
necessarily, although you can dothat as well.
It's about actuallyunderstanding how to coach
yourself.
But what we want to be able todo, if we're going to thrive and
become unstoppable in the AI eraand not just survive and not get
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left behind, is two core things.
We want to learn how to use thetechnology really well or the
species really well, co-workwith it, not just use it as a
lazy tool to shortcut things,but to really get the most out
of it.
And then what we need to be ableto do is do the kind of thinking
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that the AI can't.
And there's loads of things thatthe AI can't do right now, and I
don't see it being able to doanytime in the near future that
a high-functioning human beingcan do.
Both those things, gettingreally good at using the AI, but
also getting good at thinking inways and doing things that the
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AI can't do, and I mean I meancognitive things.
Of course, the AI is not goingto do you washing up for your
eye, but I mean things at work,thing, thinking, high impact
thinking, problem solving.
Um both those things requirehigh-charge brain states.
And that's why in train yourbrain for the revolution, the
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success cycle, the AIH successcycle, the first thing we do and
we're going to do today ismeasure our brain states.
Because by understanding whereour brain states are right now,
it gives us a baselinemeasurement to the starting
point and where we need toprioritize improving.
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Do we need more recharge?
Do we need to do less mediumcharge?
Do we need to do more highcharge?
Probably all of all of theabove, right?
But that's where we're going tostart.
And it's a it's a pre-we'redoing these challenges for free.
So it's a prerequisite that you,if you want to get the most out
of it, of course, you can justlisten along if you want, but if
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you want to get the most out ofthem, we just ask that you have
a copy of Train Your Brain forthe Air Evolution, which you can
get for one dollar from ourwebsite, and there'll be a link
below this um podcast.
Or if you're watching this onYouTube, because this is going
to be a YouTube video as well,then there'll be a link below
the video.
But I'm sure you've probablyalready got a copy of Train Your
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Brain for the Hire Revolution.
And what I'm going to do is I'mgoing to share my screen using
the power of um technology.
And I'm going to go into TrainYour Brain for the Hire
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Evolution, and we're going to goto the brain state assessment,
which is in.
So it's probably worth actuallyjust taking one step back.
So this challenge, this four-daychallenge, is going to center
around four core steps.
So, first of all, we're going tomeasure our brain states, then
tomorrow we're going to workwith what we call the task
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director and plan our create ourown strategic plan.
So using what we call the futureambitious meaningful story.
And then we're going to focusthat down for the next 30 days.
Then we're going to use the daydesigner to help us to create a
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willpower story on day three.
So we can actually giveourselves the best chance of
getting done what we want toprioritize doing, including good
sleep, good stress management,and all those tasks that you
need to complete.
And then on day four, we'regoing to work with the routine
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engineer to help us to get thebehavioral science, the nine
action factors working for us bycreating a habit building plan.
So that's what we're going todo.
So today we're going to go intothe um brainstor assessment.
So you may, as you're listeningto this, you may be working as a
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certified mechanic coachalready.
So you will have, depending onwhere you're at, you'll have
different tools to do this.
But I'm just going from thebook.
So we're going to go intochapter eight.
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If you've got the book in frontof you, and if you just turn to
page um 40, you will see thehuman AI readiness brainstead
assessment.
And here are 15 statements thatyou give yourself a score out of
10 for each statement, and youget a total score.
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So let me just read the firstone.
I'm not going to go through thisevery single statement because
you can do that yourself.
But let me just get the firstone read out.
So I find myself responding tourgent issues instead of having
a plan or sticking to my plan.
So if I never find myselfresponding to urgent issues
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instead of having a plan orsticking to my plan, I'll give
myself a one.
If I always find myselfresponding to urgent issues
instead of having a plan orsticking to my plan, I'll give
myself a 10.
So hopefully you're seeing herelow scores are good.
High scores mean are bad.
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We just want to use that verysimple language.
Low scores means you're doinglots of helpful things every
day.
So you're probably somewhere inbetween.
You're probably not a one or aten, you're probably somewhere
in between.
So if you go through each of thestatements, and if you watch the
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YouTube video, if you'rethinking I don't have the book,
um you can kind of see them onthe screen.
And you go through all thestatements, and I'll just go
into a couple of these thingshere, like uh statement five: my
mind feels foggy and it slowsdown my work.
That's because you're notlooking after your brain
properly.
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Um, you might say, no, it'sbecause I've got ADHD.
That may be the case, but itmeans you're not looking after
your brain properly.
We've got to go back to theneurologic, neurobiological
first principles.
If my brain feels foggy, it'snot working very well.
So we've got to do things thathelp it to work better.
And that's what we're gonna doas we go on this journey
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together.
Um, you know, I find myself, A,I find myself scrolling on
social media when I know it'snot a good use of my time.
Um, I waste time because I'm notthinking clearly.
Let me get into 14 and my dietchoices lead me feeling
sluggish.
You know, how many people feelsluggish after lunch?
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Lack of regular exercise reducesmy mental energy.
So these statements are not justmade up randomly, they're
literally developed over 25years of work, working with over
20,000 people.
These are the things we knowthat people who are functioning
really well are getting right,and those who are not
functioning very well are notgetting right, so they're very
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deliberate.
So you can give work throughthat, give yourself a score.
You can pause the video if youwant, or pause the podcast if
you want, and then chapter nine,you get your score.
So if you get a score between 91and 150, you have across the
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bear profile.
That means that you're spendingan unhelpful amount of time in
medium charge brain states.
This is the kind of work thatespecially agentic AI is
excellent at.
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So you're highly replaceable ifyou're spending too much time in
medium charge brain states, it'salso a recipe for health,
happiness, well-being,performance.
So you it's okay if you're inacross the bear profile right
now, but we don't want to staythere, we want to do some things
differently to help us to getout of it, and I'll show you
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what to do over the course ofthis four-day challenge.
If you get a score between 61and 90, um you have a jagged
dual profile, so you're doingsome things well, but there's
other things you can improve.
Um, and then if you have a scorebetween 15, imagine that if
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you've got one on a whole ofthose statements, I've never
done that.
Um, but you may have.
Between 15 and 60, then you'vegot the arrowhead profile.
This means you're doing reallywell, but there's also room for
improvement.
Um, and that's it.
So we just want to understandwhere our score is.
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Doesn't matter where it is, wecan do better.
Ultimately, your score is drivenby your habits.
Um, and we can get rid of our ordestroy our destructive habits
and build new super habits, andwe can actually use AI to help
us to do that ascounterintuitive as it sounds.
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Hence, human eye performancepsychology, AI is a supercharger
for behavior change.
So that's all we wanted to sharein the first day of this
challenge.
I'm really excited about this.
I hope that you are as well.
Um, if you if it's helpful,share it with someone else.
And please note that if you'rethinking, you know, the idea of
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becoming a coach sounds good,but I don't think I'm cut out
for that.
This is what you're doing now.
You're coaching yourself, you'restarting to coach yourself using
exactly the same system that umyou will use to coach others.
And if you are coaching people,if you're already a certified
mechanic coach or you'retraining, feel free to model
this four-day challenge um withyour clients or the pilot people
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you're working with.
I don't mean airline pilots, Imean people you're um testing
your skills out on.
So this is why I'm doing thisbecause I want to spread good
practice.
I say here, I'm gonna go zoomright to the top of this book.
Um, because this is the missionI'm on.
And I think if you're listeningto this, you're on this mission
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with me as well.
And it's very simple.
I created this book and thehuman high performance
psychology approach and thehabit mechanic approach because
I believe that mastering ourbrain states will become
humanity's most vital skill forhealth, happiness, and success
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in the AI era.
And I say then in the book andin our programs, etc., I'll I'll
guide you to mastering your ownbrain states and show you how to
help others do the same.
This book is dedicated to thepioneers who will help humanity
master its brain states andcreate an extraordinary future
in the AI era.
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Thank you for being a pioneerand joining me on this mission.
Might sound high for looting,but it's real.
This is absolutely real.
So well done if you're listeningand you're doing this and you're
working on yourself.
And just tell someone else, tellsomeone else about it because
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that's going to help them aswell.
And already there's a hugemarket opening up for people who
know how to help others managetheir brain sets.
This is step one.
So make sure you've got yourscore, make sure you know what
profile you are, and then we'llsee you again tomorrow.
Thanks for listening.
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And remember, we're only everone brain state habit away.