Micro Habits: Lando Norris' Secret Weapon + Adam Peaty's Comeback Formula (Exclusive Audiobook Preview)
The High Performance Podcast
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What does a Formula One World Champion packing up a garage have in common with an Olympic swimmer crying into his goggles at the end of a training session? More than you might think.
In this exclusive preview, Jake and Damian read two of their favourite chapters from the Micro Habits audiobook, distilling some of the most powerful lessons from six years and 400+ conversations with the world's highest performers.
First, Lando Norris reveals the mindset shift that separates people who merely have a job from those who have found a calling, and the surprisingly simple reframe that can unlock it for anyone, whatever they do for a living.
Then, Adam Peaty opens up about the breakdown that almost ended his Olympic dream, the ancient Greek myth that helped him find his way back, and the brutally honest advice Michael Phelps gave him in a 20-minute conversation that changed everything.
These aren't dramatic, headline-grabbing moments. They're quiet, private, and almost invisible — and they're exactly the kind of micro habits that make everything else possible.
Micro-Habits: Tiny Changes That Supercharge High Performance is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Damien here. I want to bring you another little exclusive today. Over the last six years on this podcast, Jake and I have sat across from some of the most remarkable human beings on the planet. Olympic champions, elite coaches, successful business leaders and so many more. The question we always ask ourselves after we've done the interview |
| 0:22.7 | is this, what is it that the very best actually do differently and consistently? The answer, it turns out, |
| 0:30.7 | is much smaller than you might think. It's not in the grand gestures, it's not in five-hour morning |
| 0:36.7 | routines or in some magic formula |
| 0:39.3 | that requires a complete reinvention of your life. The answer, more often than not, comes down |
| 0:45.2 | to tiny, almost invisible behaviours. Those decisions that take less than five minutes, but that |
| 0:51.7 | when they compound over time, completely transform what a person is |
| 0:56.1 | capable of. We've started calling them micro habits. And today we're going to give you something |
| 1:02.8 | a little bit different. Jake and I have spent the last year writing our new book, Microhabits. |
| 1:08.8 | These are five minute changes that actually transform your life and |
| 1:12.1 | it's out right now. In it, we've distilled 48 of the most powerful lessons from this show |
| 1:18.8 | into something that you can actually pick up and use immediately. Today, we want to let the book |
| 1:25.1 | speak for itself. So what you're about to hear are two of our favourite chapters from the Microhabits |
| 1:31.0 | audio book read by Jake and me that bring to life stories from two phenomenal guests |
| 1:36.5 | who've been among the most memorable of all the people we've spoken to here on high |
| 1:41.6 | performance. |
| 1:43.0 | The first one is Lando Norris, the current Formula |
| 1:46.0 | 1 world champion and someone with the relationship to his work that I think will genuinely reframe |
| 1:51.7 | how you think about yours. The second one is Olympic champion Adam Petey, a man who's faced |
| 1:58.4 | the kind of darkness that most of us will hopefully never have to |
| 2:01.8 | experience, but who found a way through it with the help of an ancient Greek myth and the |
| 2:06.8 | honest advice of Michael Phelps. These chapters are all about motivation and commitment, about what |
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