The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life

Becoming clear about your intentions, identifying the benefits you get from an activity, and determining what you want to achieve on a Field of Play is what will help unlock your Heroic Self.

If you approach any activity to avoid a challenge, it’s a form of suppression. When you set the orientation, like a compass, to negative motivation and do something to avoid some pain, or avoid something altogether, it makes it more difficult to see yourself as the person who can solve your own problems.

Human beings have a collection of intrinsic motivators that, when you tap into them, drive a more meaningful level of action. Things like: Growth, the desire to improve and constantly get better Curiosity, the desire to discover new things Mastery, the desire to learn and become excellent at something Adventure, the desire to be challenged and expl

you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

Its actual Latin meaning is “the other I.”

The Core Self is where possibility exists. It’s this deep inner core where a creative force resides waiting to be activated by the power of intention.

we’re going to add one final filter to your Five Bridges. Thinking, feeling, doing, and experiencing. These are the four planes we’re always living in: What are you thinking, what are you feeling, what are you doing, and what are you experiencing or getting as a result?

This is what is known as the Ordinary World. It’s a world where it feels like the “real you” is trapped. The you that has aspirations, dreams, and goals that aren’t being actualized. They aren’t getting out onto the Field of Play so you can see just how good you are or what you can do. It’s frustrating, stressful, and typically creates a pile of se