How to Get Out of Your Own Way with Todd Herman
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
How do you get out of your own way so you can accomplish your goals and make your dreams come true?
I’m excited to bring this conversation to you today because Todd Herman is a real high-performance coach. He’s a game-changing expert, a strategist, and works with some of the elite individuals from corporate America and athletes.
His new book, Alter Ego Effect, talks about a phenomenon of using your imagination to try on new characters to get you in different emotions and mental states that will bring you the results you desire.
Tune in as he shares how you can activate your alter egos to get things done.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain. Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. Come food. Show me. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back, QuickBrain. |
| 0:25.0 | So here's your question of the day. |
| 0:27.0 | How do you get out of your own way? |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm really excited about this conversation we're going to have today and Todd first of all thank you Todd Herman |
| 0:36.2 | Thank you for being on our show. It's a pleasure man and we were we were seeking out over high performance because Todd is a high performance coach he's a game-changing |
| 0:44.8 | expert your strategist you work with some of the most elite individuals in corporate America |
| 0:49.4 | in boardrooms and also in the field yeah athletics also as well as a former athlete yourself but also as a parent. |
| 0:56.7 | So in all these different contexts you must see certain patterns where people they say they can't get out of their own way, but what does that mean and what can we do about this? |
| 1:07.2 | Because your book, right? |
| 1:09.2 | Which I recommend everybody to go pick up, alter ego effect, talks about this a lot. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, a lot of the root of the question, |
| 1:15.8 | especially in your community would be |
| 1:17.1 | because they're learners, they're people who are striving, |
| 1:19.4 | they are coachable, they're consuming, |
| 1:22.0 | trying to find new ways of activating that other self that |
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