412: Access Superpowers by Embracing Alter Egos with Todd Herman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Todd Herman shares how the concept of alter egos helps you become the ideal you that a given situation calls for.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
- Why you should revisit your childhood superheroes and alter egos
- Enclothed cognition and Halloween lessons for being awesome at our jobs
- How to improve your visualization through all your senses
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— ABOUT TODD —
Todd Herman is an award-winning author, performance advisor to athletes, leaders and public figures, and is a recipient of the Inc. 500 fastest growing company award. He’s been featured on the Today Show, Sky Business News, Inc Magazine and CBC National News. And lives in New York City with his young family.
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- Todd’s book: The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
- Todd’s website: www.ToddHerman.me
- Todd’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/toddherman1/
- Todd’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/todd_herman
- Mr. Rogers Documentary: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
- Research: Enclothed cognition
- Research: The amygdala and decision-making
- Book: Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 412 |
| 0:22.1 | with Todd Herman. |
| 0:23.2 | This one's a whole lot of fun. |
| 0:24.2 | We are talking about alter egos, |
| 0:26.1 | how you can tap into a different character |
| 0:29.2 | or role to become all the better |
| 0:31.0 | in whatever situation that you're facing. |
| 0:33.1 | So you'll learn one, why you should revisit your childhood superheroes and alter egos. |
| 0:37.4 | Two, how enclosed cognition and Halloween teaches us lessons for being awesome at our jobs and three how to improve |
| 0:44.1 | your visualization through all your senses. So you can find the transcript and show notes and |
| 0:48.4 | links over at awesome at your job.com slash at 4.12. Now here's Todd's story Todd Herman is an award-winning |
| 0:54.5 | author performance advisor to athletes leaders and public figures and a recipient of |
| 0:58.9 | the Inc 500 fastest growing company award he's been featured on the Today Show, Sky Business News, Inc magazine, and CBC National News. |
| 1:07.4 | He lives in New York with his young family. |
| 1:09.3 | Big thanks to Todd for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. |
| 1:12.3 | Check him out. |
| 1:14.0 | Here is Todd. Thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at |
| 1:19.0 | Your Job Podcast. Pistol Pete, it's a pleasure. |
| 1:22.0 | Oh, I'm already getting an alter ego. |
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