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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 performance isn’t possible without strong daily foundations. This episode zooms in on the bottom of the iceberg — the habits that quietly determine your energy, focus, confidence, and consistency.

Guided by Chapter 18 of Train Your Brain for the AI Revolution, Dr. Finn walks you through how to assess your current patterns using a practical Brain State self-assessment. Rather than trying to fix everything at once, you’ll learn how to identify the areas that need the most attention and why starting with super habits (like the 3-to-1 reflection) creates positive change across multiple foundations at the same time.

This episode is designed to help you move from insight to action — showing you how to measure what matters, simplify your focus, and build a foundation that supports motivation, clarity, and performance in the AI era.

If you haven’t listened to Parts 1–4 yet, Dr. Finn recommends starting there before diving into this episode.

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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 investment and adoption is accelerating faster than many predictions, and why this is already changing what organisations expect from humans at work.

They also discuss real-world examples of cognitive work being automated or radically accelerated, what this means for people whose roles contain repetitive, procedural tasks, and why the answer isn’t fear — it’s becoming more Brain State intelligent and learning to do the high-charge, high-impact thinking AI can’t reliably replace.

The conversation also covers a crucial theme: AI can be a powerful tool, but humans remain responsible for accuracy, judgement, and outcomes — including the need to fact-check and build reliable systems for using AI well.

The episode closes with a simple reflective prompt to help you take one practical step in the next 24 hours toward using AI (and your Brain States) more deliberately.

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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 willpower” as the jumping-off point, Jon and Andrew unpack what’s outdated about the usual nature-vs-nurture framing, why habits should be at the centre of any serious discussion about change, and why willpower isn’t a myth — it’s the conduit that allows you to interrupt old patterns and build new ones.

They explore how environment, sleep, stress, and daily routines interact to shape what you eat, how you move, and how you feel — and why many coaching clients “accidentally” lose weight as a side effect of becoming more Brain State intelligent and more deliberate in their habit design.

The conversation also connects this to the AI era: as work changes and demand for high-charge thinking increases, the ability to build better Brain State habits will become more important than ever.

A practical, science-led episode about taking back control — one habit at a time.