Jake Humphrey

and what that was was that when i was hosting the formula one i didn't really care who won the grand prix when i was hosting football i didn't really care who won the football match was it arsenal was it manchester united was it manchester city i didn't mind what i loved about that was how did these people get themselves to a place in their life where they can find an edge over others

And I kind of wanted to talk about it, but I knew that it wasn't the kind of thing that a TV channel would commission.

So a friend recommended a podcast.

But then I was super nervous because my background is on kids TV.

And I thought people are just going to laugh at this former kids TV presenter attempting to have conversations about high achieving individuals managing to find their non-negotiable behaviors.

So I met Damien, luckily.

He was talking to a professional football team and I went along to watch the talk that he was giving to the team.

We met and it started from there.

And the entire premise of the show at that point, in my head, was let's explain to the world how you've got to work harder than everyone else, how you've got to be...

You know, these days, Anthony, and this is a world that you've frequented for a long time, the alpha male world of work harder than everybody else, beat your chest, push yourself to your limits, get up earlier, go to bed later, drink your electrolyte drinks, get in the gym, push, push, push, push, and one day you'll be happy.

It's only when we started having conversations.

The Viagra is also an extension ingredient to that happiness.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What we realized from all these conversations with these high achieving people is a lot of them do all those things, but they're not very happy.

And it's this lack of happiness then became fascinating for Damien and I. So really what we've now distilled high performance down to is finding joy in what you do, because are you a high performer if you're not loving it?

But also high performance is very simple.

It's doing the best you can where you are with what you've got.

If you can live a life doing those three things, then you can't go far wrong.

And often we overcomplicate what high performance really is.