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Paul McKenna's positivity podcast.

Hello, this is Paul McKenna, and welcome to the positivity podcast.

My objective is to interview the most interesting people in the world,

and in the next 30 minutes, get insights and even discover how it is that they do what they do,

what makes them unique and fascinating, their success mindset,

and certainly what keeps them positive.

My guest today is a broadcaster, author and journalist, best known for co-hosting Top Gear and the

Grand Tour, amongst many other TV shows. I'm talking today with Richard Hammond.

We can all make changes tomorrow. I mean, tomorrow is longer than the whole of your life that went before it,

because that's done. Tomorrow is to be done moment by moment, so that's when you can make changes.

The unconscious is every bit as clever as the conscious. I think the consciousness is simply a very crude set of tools

for explaining that that is actually amazing.

To imagine our conscious thinking is the most sophisticated thing about us.

It's about sophisticated.

It's trying to paint the Madonna using Lego bricks that big.

Whenever things are a bit tricky or grim or struggle and it's hard or you're striving for something,

yeah, look at how you're going to cope if it doesn't work

and you've got to mitigate, etc.

But also then look ahead and imagine it had gone well

and make sure that when it does go well,

you don't look back and think,

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