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  • Published: 23 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804942796
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

How to Change Your Life

Five Steps to Achieving High Performance





A scientifically-tested roadmap to getting from where you are to where you want to be - the dazzling sequel to the #2 Sunday Times bestseller High Performance.

How did the world's most remarkable people get that way?

This is a book about how the highest-performing people changed their lives - and how you can change yours.

Drawing on interviews with record-setting athletes, Olympic coaches and billionaire founders, Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes introduce the five simple steps that take you from where you are to where you want to be. And they introduce the cutting-edge research that explains why these surprisingly simple tools are so effective.

It is never too late to change. This book shows you how.

  • Published: 23 April 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804942796
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

About the authors

Damian Hughes

Damian Hughes is a sports psychologist and visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. An expert on high-performance sporting cultures, Damian's research has been praised by the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Jake Humphrey

Jake Humphrey is one of the UK's best-loved sports presenters. Currently the lead Premier League football presenter on BT Sport, Jake previously spent over a decade at the BBC - covering Formula 1, the FIFA World Cup, the London Olympics and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, as well as becoming the youngest ever presenter of Match of the Day.

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