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The Habit Mechanic is a science-based podcast about brain performance in the AI era.
As AI reshapes the work humans get paid to do, focus, decision-making, and mental energy are becoming the real constraints on performance. This podcast explores how to optimise your brain’s natural energy patterns — what I call Brain States — so you can do high-value work, work effectively with AI, and sustain performance over time.
I’m Dr Jon Finn, a performance consultant with 25 years’ experience working with professionals, leaders, teams, and elite performers across business and sport. Drawing on applied neuroscience, behavioural science, and real-world practice, each episode offers clear thinking and practical tools you can use immediately.
If you’re interested in improving cognitive performance, avoiding burnout, and building the habits required to thrive alongside AI — without chasing tools or trends — this podcast is for you.
Connect with me at contact@tougherminds.co.uk or visit:
https://www.tougherminds.co.uk
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Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Take the 🧠 Brain State Assessment 👉 here Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here Podcast description In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn shares the replay of a live webinar designed to help you protect your ability to do what AI can’t — by becoming more Brain State intelligent. Dr. Finn explains why neural network AI is rapidly automating the cognitive tasks humans have historically been paid to do, and why the real ...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Take the 🧠 Brain State Assessment 👉 here Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this final episode of the How to Motivate Yourself in 2026 series, Dr. Jon Finn brings everything together by getting practical about a simple question: what should you actually be doing over the next 30 days — and what should AI be doing instead? Using Chapter 19 of Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution, Dr. Finn helps yo...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode of the Habit Mechanic Podcast, Dr. Jon Finn is joined by Tougher Minds’ Head of Coaching, Andrew Foster, to examine new evidence showing how rapidly AI is reshaping the jobs humans have traditionally been paid to do — particularly in the UK. Using recent research from Morgan Stanley, alongside insights from leaders in the AI sector, the conversation explor...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Want support putting this into practice? Get personal help from Dr. Finn inside Six Habits Live 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn continues the How to Motivate Yourself in 2026 series by focusing on a critical but often overlooked step: measuring and strengthening your foundation. As AI rapidly displaces procedural, medium-charge work, humans will increasingly be valued for high-impact, high-charge thinking. But that kind of performa...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Want support putting this into practice? Get personal help from Dr. Finn 👉 here In this episode of the Habit Mechanic Podcast, Dr. Jon Finn is joined by Tougher Minds’ Head of Coaching, Andrew Foster, to unpack what’s emerging from Davos 2026 — and what it means for work, jobs, and human performance in the AI era. Using a headline claim that AI is impacting labour “like a tsunami” as a starting point, they explore why the pace of AI inv...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here 🗓️ Book a free call with Andrew Foster here In this episode of the Habit Mechanic Podcast, Dr. Jon Finn is joined by Andrew Foster, Tougher Minds’ Head of Coaching (and a long-time member of the team), for a practical conversation about why so many mainstream explanations of behaviour change — including weight loss — miss the point. Using a popular article on “the myth of...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn continues the How to Motivate Yourself in 2026 series by focusing on something many people overlook: the foundations that make sustainable motivation possible in an AI-accelerating world. As businesses rapidly adopt AI and the pace of change increases, motivation won’t come from doing more or trying harder. It will come from having the right ...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn continues the How to Motivate Yourself for 2026 series by tackling a critical question: how do you turn a future vision into clear, meaningful action in an increasingly complex, AI-driven world? As organisations prepare to scale AI and reduce headcount, many of the tasks humans have traditionally been paid to do are changing or disappearing. ...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn continues the Motivating Yourself for 2026 series by guiding you through the next step in building your Future Ambitious, Meaningful (FAM) Story. Following on from Part 1, this episode focuses on creating the foundations of sustainable motivation by clarifying what truly matters to you — and how that connects to your brain states, habits, and...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn explores what motivation really means as we enter 2026 — and why it will look fundamentally different in the AI era. As AI increasingly takes over tasks humans have traditionally been paid to do, motivation will no longer come from pressure, deadlines, or external rewards. Instead, the people who thrive will be those who understand how to wor...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn shares the single most important thing he’s learned about managing stress — not from theory, but from coaching himself over many years. We live in a world of constant transition: post-COVID disruption, rising uncertainty, and the accelerating AI era. Yet most traditional approaches to stress were never designed around how the brain actually works. The brain doesn’t run on information — it runs in Brain Stat...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn shares a powerful story about a senior coder who became unexpectedly angry — because a simple Brain State insight transformed his performance overnight. This real-world example reveals: why your Brain States determine how you think, feel, and performhow one small daily habit can shift you into a high-charge Brain Statewhy the AI era makes Bra...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get your copy of 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" 👉 here In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn takes you behind the scenes of one of the most important breakthroughs in Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution: Brain States — the hidden driver of everything you think, feel, and do. Jon shares the origin story of Brain States for the very first time, tracing the idea back nearly a decade to formative experiences teaching activation lev...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... 🗓️ Book a FREE call with Andrew Foster (Tougher Minds, Head of Coaching) 👉here to see whether one-to-one coaching for AI-Era Success is a good fit for you. AI is advancing faster than people can adapt — and for many professionals, that feels scary. In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn returns after several weeks inside the AI frontline: panel events with NHS leaders, private dinners with business executives, and discussions with academics...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" for just $1 👉 here In this episode, we practically unpack how Human-AI Performance Psychology™ gives professionals and teams a real competitive edge in the AI era. You’ll learn why mastering your Brain States—not learning more tools—is the true multiplier for performance, creativity, and resilience. We introduce The Six Habits of High-Performing AI-Era Professionals, a practical blueprint...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... Get 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" for just $1 👉 here Today’s job market feels like a jobless boom — productivity is rising, yet opportunities feel more fragile than ever. In this episode, Dr. Jon Finn explains why that’s happening and reveals how two very different species of AI are reshaping work. Discover how agentic AI automates routine, low-value tasks — while generative AI acts as a powerful force multiplierfor human...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... 👀 Watch the video ▶️ here Get 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" for just $1 👉 here In Day 4 – Automate | Build Super Habits: How to Coach Yourself and Thrive in the AI Era, we move from knowing what to do to making it automatic — using the Nine Action Factors and a simple habit-building plan anchored by a daily Willpower Story. You’ll learn how to coach yourself, use AI to cut busywork, and design smart routines that target R...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... 👀 Watch the video ▶️ here Get 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" for just $1 👉 here In Day 3 – Optimise | Design Your Day: Strengthen Focus, Willpower & Brain State Control, we show how to lead AI by managing your own brain state, building a practical 30-day performance plan, and using the Day Designer to script a focused, energised 24 hours. The goal is simple: protect deep work, automate recovery, and use AI to accelerat...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... 👀 Watch the video ▶️ here Get 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" for just $1 👉 here In Day 2 – Plan | Build Your Long-Term Focus: How to Lead Your Own Life in the AI Era, we connect your long-term ambitions to your daily actions using the science of Human–AI Performance Psychology. You’ll learn how to turn your future vision into focused action, and how AI can free up time for high-impact workby eliminating low-value tasks. We...
Text us a question and we'll answer it on the podcast... 👀 Watch the video ▶️ here Get 📘"Training Your Brain for the AI Revolution" for just $1 👉 here We’re launching the 4-Day Audio Challenge — your free introduction to Human–AI Performance Psychology, the science of thriving in the AI era by mastering your Brain States. In Day 1, you’ll measure where your energy really goes, learn to cut Medium-Charge busywork, and discover how to use AI to free brainpower for deep work, recovery, and new s...
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