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Good Life Project

Tapping Alter-Egos to Unlock Hidden-Potential: Todd Herman

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What if there was a pill that would give you instant access to your greatest potential every time you needed it most?

What if that pill was free, had zero side-effects and worked in nearly every domain of life. Especially the ones where so many struggle, from public-speaking and socializing to high-stakes decision-making, sports and nearly any other endeavor where being at your best mattered? And, what if you had an endless supply in your pocket, 24-7, for the rest of your life?

According to this week's guest, founder and elite-performance advisor, Todd Herman, there is. But, it's not a pill. It's something you do, a peak performance power-tool he's taught his clients for decades, from Olympic and pro athletes to CEOs, founders and performers. It's what he calls the "Alter Ego Effect," and it's all about tapping the power of secret-identifies, creating and stepping into them to change not only the way your brains works, but also the way your body performs in an instant.

Todd shares the entire Alter Ego methodology, along with the science behind it and a wide-array of case-studies in his new book, The Alter Ego Effect (https://amzn.to/2RECL1n). In this week's conversation, we explore what shuts so many of us down when we most need to be at our best, how Todd came to understand and then develop the power of alter egos, and how we can tap their power in work, play and life.

For a deeper-dive into Todd's "origin story," check out our 2016 conversation (https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/todd-herman/)

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0:00.0

So we've all had those moments where all we want to do is show up and be at our absolute

0:08.6

best, whether it's as a parent partner in your professional life as a performer and athlete

0:14.9

and executive and artist, whatever it may be.

0:17.6

We have those windows of time where everything's on the line.

0:20.6

Sometimes they're the blink of an eye, sometimes it's an entire season of our life, but we

0:25.3

need to access everything that we have to show up with everything that we've got and

0:31.0

perform at a level that we hope we're ready for.

0:34.2

And I have always been deeply fascinated with how we do that and how some people seem

0:39.5

to have the ability to do it on a much higher level and much more frequently.

0:44.2

I got really curious about that.

0:46.3

A long time friend of mine, Todd Herman has been on the show before as we explored his

0:51.4

personal journey.

0:52.8

But he also earns his living working with many of the highest performing people across

0:58.3

all domains in the world and has spent decades deconstructing the psychology, the behavior

1:03.0

chains, the mindset, the belief systems that allowed people to go to that place where magic

1:07.9

happens to access it more readily and to stay there for longer.

1:12.6

And he has been doing work around the concept of alter egos that I have become kind of fascinated

1:18.6

by. He has a new book out called The Alter Ego Effect which deep dives into it, but I

1:23.9

asked Todd to come back into the studio because I wanted to explore this with him and really

1:29.4

understand what this thing is, how this tool works, how I might integrate it into my life

1:34.7

and also deconstruct it a bit to share with you how it might help you.

1:39.7

Really excited to share this conversation.

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