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

And while the Enemy is a part of you, it’s not you.
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
If you don’t take yourself seriously on any Field of Play, you most likely won’t be getting the results you want.
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
Make it something you’re going to love facing down and conquering. What do I mean? Humiliate it. Make the Enemy as small as possible. Make it cute. Make it something that you’ll look at and go, “Aw, aren’t you adorable.” Take away all its fear over you. Make it the most nonthreatening thing you’ve ever seen.
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
Activate or stay trapped, those are our only options.
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
if you’re not clear about what or who needs to be showing up on your Field of Play, you can end up carrying a Trapped Self onto that field that won’t serve you.
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
LAYER 2: THE BELIEF LAYER (HOW YOU DEFINE YOURSELF AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU) This is where you’ll find your attitudes, beliefs, values, perceptions, experiences, and expectations toward how you see yourself and how you perceive the world around you.
Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
There’s an internal justification of “Nobody will ever know anyway if I don’t do this.” But you will always know.