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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: Time to get your book picks for this weekend. Catherine

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Speaker 2: Rains is our book reviewer on Saturday mornings on News

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Speaker 2: Talks dB. She's here with her reads for this weekend. Hey, Catherine,

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Speaker 2: Morning Jack. Okay, let's begin with Habits of High Performers

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Speaker 2: by James Laughlin.

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Speaker 3: So, before James became a coach, a high performance coach,

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Speaker 3: he would have described himself, I guess, as being part

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Speaker 3: of that hustle grind culture that a lot of it exists,

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Speaker 3: and you know, and as he explains that it typically

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Speaker 3: comes at the expense of your own health and your

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Speaker 3: relationships with your family that when it all costs mentality,

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Speaker 3: you know, work hard, play hard, and really probably what

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Speaker 3: it's led to is high rates of anxiety and burnout

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Speaker 3: amongst high performers both and lots of people on and

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Speaker 3: off the sporting field as well. And he's worked with

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Speaker 3: all blacks and PGA Tall winners, prime ministers and chief

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Speaker 3: executives of global corporations. Lot of time to sit down

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Speaker 3: and talk to people, and he doesn't believe in that

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Speaker 3: concept of work life balance either, what he talks about

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Speaker 3: is counterbalancing, and what he means is is it's the

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Speaker 3: kind of noticing when we've become completely focused on one

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Speaker 3: sphere of our lives, and often it's work at the

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Speaker 3: expense of everything else, like family, friends, sleep, health, having

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Speaker 3: time off. And it sounds quite simplistic, but you know,

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Speaker 3: he talks about his body having this role and your

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Speaker 3: ability to perform at your best in particular hormones like

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Speaker 3: cortisola and dopaman and dolphins, and that influences how we

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Speaker 3: handle stress and how we stay focused and motivated, and

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Speaker 3: it's balancing those things through sleep and nutrition and recovery

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Speaker 3: and so kind of turning your body into an asset,

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Speaker 3: not kind of limiting you all the time. And he

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Speaker 3: you know, if you break it down into his most

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Speaker 3: simplistic form, he's really talking about exercise, diet, and sleep,

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Speaker 3: and those are the kind of non negotiable things that

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Speaker 3: you have. You know, exercise gets your body ready for

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Speaker 3: for what is to come, and nutrition fuels that performance

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Speaker 3: and sleep allows you to do that sustainably over a

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Speaker 3: long time. And you know, as he explains it, high

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Speaker 3: performancey the world differently and they understand that success comes

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Speaker 3: from that depth and focus, and he has was that

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Speaker 3: he discussed like vision and self discipline and belief and

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Speaker 3: it all offers very different perspectives and some practical ideas

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Speaker 3: and strategies and really shifting your mindset and most importantly

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Speaker 3: being able to sustain that. And yeah, it's just a

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Speaker 3: really different kind of an interesting look at how you

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Speaker 3: can perform differently, and I think not just for high performers,

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Speaker 3: but you know how you can think about those things

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Speaker 3: in your own life.

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Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, that Habits of High Performance by James Laughlan.

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Speaker 2: You've read Dan Brown's new books tell Us About Secrets

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Speaker 2: of Secrets.

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Speaker 3: So this is his first novel for eight years, and

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Speaker 3: he brings back Robert Langdon, who's a Harvard symbiologist, and

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Speaker 3: this time he's against a conspiracy which tests his considerable

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Speaker 3: brain power and new scientific territories and lots of historical

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Speaker 3: intrigue and expiration of research and philosophical death. The depth

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Speaker 3: sorry that Dan Brown brings into his novels. This time

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Speaker 3: the mystery isn't hidden inside a vault, and it's not

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Speaker 3: within the Vatican. It's actually in a research center in Prague,

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Speaker 3: which is kind of known of this mystical capital of Europe.

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Speaker 3: It's architets architecture of the mythology factor, and it all

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Speaker 3: kind of weaves into the story, and so you get

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Speaker 3: lots of cathedrals and monasteries and secrets and kind of

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Speaker 3: perfect backdrop almost. And in this Robert Langdon has met

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Speaker 3: this woman, Catherine Solomon, and they're deeply in love. And

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Speaker 3: she's a noetic scientist and what that means is she

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Speaker 3: studies human consciousness, so things like esp and precognition and

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Speaker 3: near death experiences. And they're in Prague for the speaking

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Speaker 3: engagement and she's made this breakthrough that kind of promises

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Speaker 3: him to change the world. And then she disappears and

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Speaker 3: no clue where she is. And Langdon of course is

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Speaker 3: racing against time and dangerous and powerful people and people

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Speaker 3: lurking in the dark streets in the city trying to

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Speaker 3: find Catherine. So you get these fast paced scenes and

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Speaker 3: an intriguing storyline, lots of course unexpected twists and plot

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Speaker 3: and the characters. There's murder and mayhem with a few

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Speaker 3: spy and diplomats and unethical people throwing in there, and

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Speaker 3: it's yeah, it's a typical Dan Brown roller coaster ride.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, this sounds great. So that is Secrets of

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Speaker 2: Secrets by Dan Brown, Catherine's first book, Habits of High

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Speaker 2: Performers by James Laughlin.

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