The Tiny Daily Habits That Rewire Your Brain - Jake Humphrey & Damian Hughes
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What tiny daily habits can rewire your brain for success?
Be a spark of light. If you're the spark of light, you get more chances to bat. If you're the spark of light and things go wrong, people are rooting for you. We underestimate the importance of what we can do as individuals, particularly in a world where there's 24-hour revolving news, where the world seems so big and so muddled, we just think, well, how can I impact the world? I'm just an individual. There's nothing I can do. Well, the first thing to remember is if you go back through history, it's either individuals or small groups of individuals that have always changed the world. You start by being the light in the room. You walk into a room and you act like a thermostat, not a thermometer. A thermometer just tells you the temperature.
A thermostat goes in and thinks, nah, man, I'm changing the temperature.
Welcome to Open Book. I am your host, Anthony Scaramucci. Joining me today is Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes. They are Sunday Times bestselling authors and hosts of the High Performance podcast. But they got a bestselling book. It's called Micro Habits, Tiny Changes that Supercharge High Performance. So guys, loving you coming in. I love the podcast, by the way. We should talk a little bit about that as well. You've got over 400 conversations on high performance, but you've spent a year decoding what makes extraordinary people tick. Um, I actually, um, I think one of you handed me the book. I don't, I can't remember how I actually got the book, but I remember reading it on the way home from London. So I think either you or your publisher gave me the book.
Uh, and I thought the book was awesome. It was a little bit like atomic habits in some ways, but better in other ways, because there was like real intense stories in the book. And so let's go to some of these Olympic champions, world-class coaches, entrepreneurs, military leaders. What surprised you guys most about high performers? And you can each take the question.
Well, first of all, thanks for having us on, Anthony. It's a real privilege to get to chat with you. And thanks for reading the book as well. That's always a privilege. We came up with the idea that we've done over 400 interviews with these incredible people on the podcast. And One of the things is we often talk about great abstract ideas like motivation or having a vision or drive. And what we wanted to do was sort of drill down into what are the small things that anybody can understand? What leads to motivation? What leads to greater drive? So we started exploring like small behaviors that we'd seen that, that, I mean, you referenced atomic habits. We sat down with James Clear, who, had this great line that the heaviest weight in the gym is always the front door.
So James had spoke to us about it's often just finding one small step you can take that has that catalyst effect for others. So we spoke to Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize winning author who shared with us that he'd spent 15 years researching his book, Super Communicators. And we said, distill 15 years of wisdom down into just a simple habit that any of us can take away. And he spoke about every conversation is either a social, emotional or technical conversation. So he sums it up as one of three H's. Every conversation is either a request to be heard, to be helped or to be hugged. And if you can work out which of those three conversations you're having with the other person, what we find is that you connect so much at a deeper level.
The trust, the cooperation, the generosity that you feel with that other party becomes so much more significant. So that's an example of a micro habit where anybody can start a conversation and work out very quickly. Is this a hug, a hear, or a help one?
Yeah, Anthony, I think really Microhabits is a self-help book for people that don't like self-help books. And in some ways, I almost felt embarrassed that we were charging people, right, for this book because it's so obvious. But I think we live in a world where we've been told for years that you have to have a big goal.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What tiny daily habits can rewire your brain for success?
0:00–4:01
2
How do small changes lead to high performance?
4:01–7:44
3
What surprising insights did you gain from interviewing high performers?
7:44–15:48
4
How can individuals become the light in their environments?
15:48–22:30
5
What role does happiness play in high performance?
22:30–23:12
Speakers
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