Day 2 – Plan | Build Your Long-Term Focus: How to Lead Your Own Life in the AI Era - The Habit Mechanic - Unlock your Human-AI Edge

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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hello, habit mechanics, Dr.
John Finn here.
I hope you're well.
Today is day two of our four-daychallenge, where we're helping
you to build the habits that aregoing to be the foundation of
your success in the AI era.
So if you don't want to justsurvive, if you don't want to

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get left behind, if you don'twant to become replaceable, this
challenge is for you.
And we're working through fourcore steps of the AI edge
success cycle.
Yesterday, in day one of thechallenge, we covered step one
and we helped help you to manageyour brain state.

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So if you haven't listened to orwatched the day one video, the
that there's the podcast isavailable, and the video of the
podcast recording is available.
Go back and watch that, andthat's going to set you up for
today.
So today, by going to, and I'mjust going to share my screen

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again so that we can um see theexact system we're working
through here.
So today, like we're on thisjourney that you can see on the
screen.
Or if you're listening,essentially, we uh started by
just introducing a few coreideas yesterday, then we moved

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on to step one, where wemeasured your brain state.
So you should have a brain statescore if you listen, listened
yesterday, should have anunderstanding of your brain
state profile, either across thebear, a jagged jewel, or an
arrowhead.
Today we're going to move on tostep two, and we're going to
work with the task director.

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So we need to put our brainstates into context.
And to help us to do that, we'regoing to, and this is from Train
Your Brain for the AIRevolution.
And as I said yesterday, I'dreally recommend if you don't
have this book in front of you,get it.
You can get the book for justone dollar.

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Um, there'll be a link beneaththe video or the podcast.
So we're gonna we're gonna startto create what we call your
future ambitious, meaningfulstory.
So you may have done thisbefore, you may not have done
this before.
But what we're doing here is weare getting you to very

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deliberately think about yourdistant future.
What are the kind of things thatyou want to have that you want
to be doing, let's say in thenext 10 years?
You can go further than that ifyou want.
And then you work backwards andthink, well, in order to achieve
and have those things in thenext 10 years, what do I need in
the next one?
What do I need to be doingachieving in the next one to

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four years?
And then what do I need to bedoing and achieving in the next
12 months to achieve thosethings in the next one to four
years?
And then what does that mean Ineed to focus on this month?
And then what does that mean Ineed to focus on this week?
And what does that mean I needto be working on today?
And ultimately, today is beingdriven by your brain states, and

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if they're not where you wantthem to be, we're gonna have to
build some new habits to um giveyourself a better chance of
achieving the things that youwant to achieve this week and
this month, and in the next 12months, and the next one to four
years, and in the next 10 years.
So, this is what we callintelligent goal setting, trial
and testing methodology.

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And what we do in uh step two oftraining your brain for their
revolution is we map out how tocreate your fam story in a
step-by-step fashion.
We start by uh getting you toreflect on some meaningful
value-based questions.

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You know, everything in ourapproach has evolved by working
with people in real time throughcoaching and workshops and big
programs that we've run where wetry and test things out.
And I remember trying to testout values with people, uh,
because it's often talked aboutthat people need to understand

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their values.
But what we found was thatpeople found the idea very
abstract and it actually wasn'tall that helpful.
So instead of just thinkingabout values, we think about
these things instead.
So the first question this iskind of the warm-up for the fam
story is think about whoinspires you, be specific name
names.

And here we list some examples: parents, siblings, grandparents, (04:40):
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family, colleagues, peoplewho've changed society,
scientists, Nobel Prize winners,entrepreneurs, mentors, writers,
sporting champions, politicalleaders, high achievers,
musicians, artists, othercreative people.
The list goes on.
And it says think about why thepeople who inspire you actually

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inspire you.
Again, be specific, identified,identify their shared and
individual qualities.
So some examples of why theymight inspire you because
they're dedicated, they'repersistent, they're
self-sacrificed, they'redetermined, they have desire,
work, ethics, success,tolerance.
They're committed to makingprogress, they're committed to

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excellence, innovation,humility.
Uh, they're dependable, they'reresilient, they've got a great
attitude, they've got guts.
And then the next question isthink about what you do to feel
like your best.
So, again, some examples havefun, help others, develop
myself, relax, do meaningfulwork, show humility, give my

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best, have a good work-lifebalance, achieve results, be
dedicated, be determined,persistent, persist with
difficult challenges, beresilient, show the right
attitude, make personalprogress, be diligent, be
dependable, be tolerant, eatwell, sleep well, show
self-control.
So, you know, we're just askingyou to pick out a couple of
these things, and we go on.

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So uh four here is um thinkabout why it's important for you
to do these things, whatoutcomes they will help you to
achieve.
Five is think about your topstrengths.
Six is think about the mostimportant and difficult things
you've achieved in your life sofar in the last 12 months.
Seven, think about how youmanage to be persistent to

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secure this achievement.
So, what we're doing here iswe're getting to really zoom out
from yourself and think aboutwhat is important to you, why
it's important to you, who thepeople in your life are that you
look up to, what you've achievedin your life so far that is

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gonna act as a foundation forachieving the next big thing
that you achieve.
And then we move on and we gointo chapter 16, and we get you
to start thinking about what youwant to achieve in the distant

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future, what you want to do inthe next one to four years, what
you want to do and achieve inthe next 12 months, then in the
next six months, the next threemonths, the next 30 days, this
week, and today, so that you'vegot that interconnected idea.
Now, you might be thinkingthat's a lot for me, and I don't
have time to do that.
Just pick one thing to startwith.
So just say, for example, Ihaven't met anyone.

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If you think of the top of theiceberg, the sort of the apex,
that very top diamond shape ofthe iceberg, or just the very
peak of the iceberg, that's thefurthest into the distance that
you can think about.
That could be 10 years, it couldbe 20, it could be 50, whatever
you want it to be.
I haven't met anyone yet whodoesn't want to be healthy and

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happy in the distant future.
So if you just think about thatone core thing, that's gonna
mean that you need to have agood sleep habits, you need to
have good stress managementhabits, and some other things as
well, probably about uh income,about job satisfaction, about

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family things, about where youwant to live.
And it goes on, and that's areally good starting point.
So if we just get kind of onethread between the top and the
bottom, that's enough to getgoing.
The Future Ambitious MeaningfulStory, it's an organic process
in the sense of you don't justdo it once, you revisit this at
least once a month to startwith, and you build it up and

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you layer it up.
And the beauty of goal settingin this way is goals are focus
and stress management tools.
So by setting a goal, you giveyourself a focus, and you also
start to create thisself-fulfilling prophecy about
your future, especially when youwrite it down in this level of

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detail, and then the goals arenot set set in stone.
So at any point in time whereany one goal is feeling
overwhelming, you can change it,you can make it easier to
achieve, but also you can makeit harder to achieve if you need
a bit more motivation to moveforwards.
Motivation in this sense is justdirection and intensity of

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effort, that's how we define it,and goals are really important
for direction and intensity ofeffort.
Think about the goals on thewall, and your motivation is
like a dart that you throwtowards the goals.
Um, so in chapter 16, we helpyou to kind of unpack all that
stuff and really create a clearplan for up to the next two or

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three months.
Um again, don't feel overwhelmedby this, you can do it
relatively quickly.
And then what we do is weactually ask you to um break

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this down into the next 30 days,and what we want to start
thinking about in the next 30days is what kind of tasks do
you need to be achieving.
So, some of those tasks we thinkof ice cubes.
Use your medium charge brainstate to do that type of work,

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so easy administration jobs.
You've probably already got alist, but you can extend the
list, and then you're gonna havea list of what we call ice
sculpture tasks, like um morecomplex, high-impact,
high-charge thinking work.
So ice sculptures are thingsthat we build up over a period
of time.
So, me doing this four-daychallenge, doing the content,

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doing the recordings of videos,it's like an ice sculpture.
Um, writing the habit mechanicbook was an ice sculpture,
writing Train Your Brain fortheir revolution was an ice
sculpture, you know, writing anew client proposal about um
helping teams improve how theywork with AI is an ice sculpture

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the first time you do it.
Creating become a certifiedhabit mechanic coach training
program was a big ice sculptureto build, and so on.
But what you really want to worktowards is having that clear
list of ice cubes and icesculpture tasks that you want to
be achieving in the next um 30days, and then what we can do is

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we can make a note next to eachone about where it is in terms
of priority and how long itmight take us to complete it,
especially for the ice sculpturetask, because often ice
sculptures feel overwhelming,like creating a fam story.
So if you think, well, actually,I can do that in 30 minutes, it
just feels less overwhelming,and then you have a clear focus

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on what you need to beprioritizing to do every day to
give yourself the best chance ofachieving your goals today, this
week, this month, this year, andso on.
And that's what the fam story isabout.
And what we can also start to dois we can go back to these

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neural network AI technologiesand think, well, how can they
help me to get my the stuff donethat I want to get done?
So yesterday we talked aboutthere are two AI, neural network
AI is a bit like a species, andthere are two types.
One is agentic AI, we can useagentic AI to help us with our

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ice cube tasks, so we can fullyautomate already some of the ice
cube tasks that we used to haveto use our own brain power to
do, and we can semi-automateothers, and we can also use the
other species of neural networkAI, which is LLMs and generative

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AI, to help us to uh get our icesculptures built faster.
So, what we're doing here iswe're not only organizing our
goals in an intelligent way,we're also very deliberately
thinking about how can I harnessthis new powerful technology in
my day-to-day.

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And even if you just pick onetool, that's going to be helpful
for you.
So you might start to be moredeliberate in how you work with
Claude or ChatGTP in um buildinga nice sculpture that you need
to build, like creating a newproposal for a new client,
working on your own book,whatever it is, working on your

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sales and marketing plan.
So that's what we're doing hereis we're connecting our brain
states and how we can use AI toget a better balance across
brain states.
Because if we use AI tools tohelp us to build our ice

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sculptures and to automate orsemi-automate our ice cube
tasks, we're going to get thatstuff done faster, we're going
to feel better about ourselves,and we're going to have more
high-quality recharge time.
So that's what we're doing here.
So, again, all of this is instep two of training your brain
for the AI revolution.

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So, I'd really encourage you togo in there and uh work through
these chapters.
And if you've even if you'vealready done it before, update
your fam story.
Remember, what we're doing hereis we're learning how to become
our own expert habit-buildingcoaches.
And the best measure of beingable to do that is to be able to

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teach it, teach others how to doit.
And that's why we're reallyencouraging people to become
certified habit mechaniccoaches.
That's the training we've puttogether to help people to
actually do this in a formal waywhere you can get that
recognition.
Um, even if you just want tohelp your family use these
tools.
But equally, if you want to getthe next promotion at work,

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because you've got this set ofexpertise, everybody now is
starting to desire in theirbusinesses, or you want to um
set up your own coachingbusiness using that.
That's why we created thatcertification.
What we're doing here is in thisfour-day challenge, we're just
dipping our toe into the water.
Um, we're always going to gofrom knowing to doing to habit.

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So the first thing to do is justto get the knowledge about this
system, this simple four-step AIsystem, and just start to put it
into practice in a way thatworks best for you and your
schedule.
So that's all I wanted to sharetoday.
So I'm just zooming up thedocument here that I'm sharing

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in the video just to share wherewe've got up to.
So we've covered Brand StateMeasurement, we've looked at the
planning today.
Tomorrow we'll look at workingwith the day designer and
creating a willpower story.
Thanks for listening.

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Listen back again if that'shelpful.
But the all the details are inthe book, which you can get for
one dollar.
Uh, but I know most people wholisten to this already have that
book.
So use it.
It's a playbook, put it intopractice because this is the key

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to capitalizing on the amazingopportunities that the AI era is
bringing for us, not just to getyour work done faster, but to be
healthier, happier, and at yourbest more often, and ultimately
to help others do this, helpothers to become brain state
intelligent.
That's going to be the mostimportant, or I'd argue it's

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already the most important typeof intelligence on the planet
for humans to develop.
Many of the intelligences thatwe've prioritized developing are
now fully automatable, so theybecome less important.
The most important intelligenceis brain state intelligence,
understanding how our brainworks, so we get the most out of

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it.
Uh, get into those high chargebrains consistently, spend ample
time in recharge brain states.
And that's why we say you'reonly ever one brain state habit
away.

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