We've created this sense of false urgency around all our communication.

Overflowing email inboxes, overloaded calendars, all kinds of communication tools,

which are trying to draw more from our attention than we can actually give.

It causes people to be more stressed than they

otherwise would. Even though they're often working longer, they feel like they've got less time

to get their work done. And so I try to give people some hope to tell them that your brain is not

broken. In fact, you're built for breakthrough. Productivity isn't just about output. It's about

energy, rhythm and recovery. Dr. James Hewitt spent his career unlocking the science of performance, and he's here to reveal the truth behind pushing your limits without breaking.

What have you learned about managing our energy well?

It's limited, but it's not as limited as we think it is.

So what I'm going to do now is we're going to slide this onto your head and we're going to be able to measure your cognitive performance relative to some of the world's top performance, including F-1 World Champions. You've got billions of brain cells producing electrical activity and we're able to use that to get an idea of not only which parts of your brain are working, but also how they're working. Golly.

All right, Dr. Hewitt, so here we go. Open up this envelope a little bit prior to us starting right here.

We did an examination, I'll call it. That's what it felt like. And tell people what's happening

inside that envelope. What do you have? Well, you're kind enough to participate in a test in an

assessment before we started rolling today. And so the idea is that we're assessing some really

basic aspects of your cognitive performance. And the reason this matters is that the things that we

measured provide the building blocks

for all the types of thinking that we do during an average working day.

So your ability to pay attention during a meeting,

your ability to switch from paying attention in the meeting to maybe switching off when you get home,

which is difficult for many of us.

And also how that compares with top athletes like Formula One drivers, but also people in your age range. Oh boy. So we're going to be able to take a look at this. I'm feeling vulnerable right now, but also excited to learn here. This is great. Because you are a human performance scientist. That's why you do this. And people are going to understand why this is so important for all of us if we want to win professionally.

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