Jake and Damian tackle the question underneath almost every High Performance conversation: what do the best actually do differently, day to day?

Not the big moments. The small, repeatable ones. Because across hundreds of conversations on this show, the pattern is rarely talent or luck. It's that high performers have built a handful of habits they hold onto when nobody is watching, and they keep doing them long after most of us would have forgotten about them.

In this episode, Jake and Damian hear from:

Jamie Peacock on why a life of hard decisions becomes an easier life, and the moment on a training pitch in Australia when Damian was on the receiving end of one.
James Clear on why grit is really about fit, and the question to ask before you commit to any new habit.
Emily Maitlis on the five minutes of golden time she takes before every interview, including the one at Buckingham Palace.
Mel Robbins on why she still needs the five second rule to get out of bed, thirteen years after inventing it.
Dan Carter on earning your weekend, and why drifting through the week is the opposite of high performance.

If there's a habit you keep meaning to start, pick one of these five and begin there.

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