Hey there, how's it going? I'm Jake Humphrey and this is High Performance, our gift to you

for free every single week. This is the podcast that reminds you that it's already within your

ambition, your purpose, your story. It's already there. We just hope you unlock it by turning

the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. So right

now, allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to speak to the greatest leaders, thinkers,

sport stars, entrepreneurs on the planet so they can be your teacher. Please remember

this podcast is not about high achievement or about high success. Today's episode especially

is about high happiness, high self-worth and taking you closer to a life of fulfillment,

empathy and understanding. Today is a totally different episode to the one we brought you

last week and the week before that and the week before that, but I think that's the beauty

of high performance. So for the next little while, this is what awaits you. I got back thinking

this is my new start and I got invited to a dinner, like an art gallery dinner and at 4pm

in the hotel room I picked up and had a line of coke and stayed up all night and then

I went back to an after party and did some things I really regret and then I carried

on through and it went out again the next night and 48 hours later. I remember just lying

in my bed staring at the walls trying to sleep thinking, I fucking hate myself. It's

both exciting and incredibly scary to understand that you are responsible for your life and

for your happiness and for what your life is going to be like, but choose to see it as

an exciting thing. You have to just constantly ask yourself, like, it's just really worth

like my mood, my vibration, my energy and it's not. Life is too precious. Along the way

you guys will know, I mean everybody listening will know, you're going to be met with rejection,

with nose, with deterrence, with obstacles, with challenges, with choices. Do you let them

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